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Thank you everybody for the names.

The Central Hospital was also known as Hatton on the Hill and was referred by locals as "Going up the hill" when anyone was sent there. Your relative did not have to have a mental illness to be sent there, when I wroked there as a nurse in the late 70's there were polish POW there, because they did not want to go back to Poland when the war was over, so were sent to Hatton. I also know of one gent in his 60's who was sent there because he stole a penny from the mantlepiece at home. They patients were also lumped in with those with learning difficulties, so it was not a nice place to be and the treatment of any kind of mental disability was still in it's infancy even in the late 70's, they had not long stopped frontal lobectomies when I started nursing!

Also women who were deemed too strong willed or prone to bouts of mild depression or "The hysterics" could also be sent up the hill.

Hi, I was a postgraduate student at Hatton in 1974/5. I had done my Subnormality training in Bristol and came to Hatton to do my Psychiatric Training.  I am actually trying to find the names of the female wards as the were named after significant women. I think one was Edith Sitwell? I have an interest in women who changed the lives for the better of working women. The most recent one I heard about being Mary Barbour and the Scottish Rent Strike. Memories of Hatton were good and the patients got better care mostly than they ones in the Subnormality Hospital I trained in did. I do remember Shirley who roamed the grounds and stopped cars asking for a fag! I went to work at Weston under Weatherly until I had my son and her brother was there. He turned out to have been in the army and had medalsd and was actually moved to live in a home for the military. The grounds were beautiful and the famous huge tree in the Drive to the front door that seemed to have a rubber trunk. If you could help with the female ward names I would be grateful. thanks.

Jacqui

I did my training there in 1975 as a post grad. I am especially interested in finding out the names of the female wards.I'm wondering if one was called Mary Barbour? or Edith Sitwell? I like the history of the women who fought to make life better for the women in the early years before the vote and Glasgow rent strike. I too remember the hospital in some detail. Can anybody remember the names please?