Denmark Hill

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Joiners Arms 45 Denmark Hill 1968

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Denmark Hill and corner of Camberwell New Road 1904

Denmark Hill looking south from Camberwell Green 1976

Denmark Hill The Triangle 1890

The sign on the upper front of the building says SELLING OFF BUILDING COMING DOWN so presumably it was gone soon after 1890

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Denmark Hill School 1905

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The Maudsley Hospital is a British psychiatric hospital in south London. The Maudsley is the largest mental health training institution in the UK. It is part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and works in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

The Maudsley story dates from 1907, when once leading Victorian psychiatrist Henry Maudsley offered London County Council £30,000 (apparently earned from lucrative private practice in the West End) to help found a new mental hospital that would be exclusively for early and acute cases rather than chronic cases, have an out-patients' clinic and provide for teaching and research. Maudsley's associate Frederick Walker Mott had proposed the original idea and he conducted the negotiations, with Maudsley remaining anonymous until the offer was accepted.

Mott, a neuropathologist, had been influenced by a visit to Emil Kraepelin's psychiatric clinic with attached postgraduate teaching facilities in Munich, Germany. The Council agreed to contribute half the building costs - eventually rising to £70,000 - and then covered the running costs which were almost twice as high per bed as the large asylums. The hospital also incorporated the Central Pathological Laboratory, transferred from Claybury Hospital, run by Mott. Construction of the hospital was completed in 1915. An Act of Parliament had to be obtained, that year, to allow the institution to accept voluntary patients without needing to certify them as insane.

Maudsly Hospital Denmark Hill

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I could not find any info on this pic of Denmark Hill, it just said pre-war

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Metropole theatre 1894

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The Golden Lion was situated at 23 Denmark Hill. This pub has now been demolished.

It was demolished in the early 1970s. The site is now occupied by a branch of the HSBC Bank