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Burden Memorial
Memorial behind the Dower House in Bristol to Rev Harold Burden who founded the Stoke Park Hospital for the mentally handicapped in 1909. Burden was a remarkable man who devoted his life to the welfare of disadvantaged people. Stoke Park Hospital finally closed in 1997 as better drugs and the Care in the Community programme saw a change in policy on mental illness. Burden who died in 1930 also gave his name to the pioneering Burden Neurological Institute opened in 1939 and originally sited nearby where I worked for six months on a work experience scheme in 1981. It is now relocated at Frenchay Hospital.
Burden Memorial
Memorial behind the Dower House in Bristol to Rev Harold Burden who founded the Stoke Park Hospital for the mentally handicapped in 1909. Burden was a remarkable man who devoted his life to the welfare of disadvantaged people. Stoke Park Hospital finally closed in 1997 as better drugs and the Care in the Community programme saw a change in policy on mental illness. Burden who died in 1930 also gave his name to the pioneering Burden Neurological Institute opened in 1939 and originally sited nearby where I worked for six months on a work experience scheme in 1981. It is now relocated at Frenchay Hospital.