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In 1841 Springfield Hospital opened on 14th June as the first Surrey County Lunatic Asylum for Paupers in the London Borough of Wandsworth, Tooting. In 1938 97 acres of land had been purchased of an estate, Springfield Park which was so named due to the spring running through it. The original buildings were designed by Middlesex County surveyor Mr W. Moseley who had also previously designed the sprawling Middlesex Asylum in Hanwell.
Springfield was a fine specimen to behold in its time with state-of-the-art design features such as steam which was circulated through the galleries to keep the hospital at a constant temperature and hot air which was injected through the floors. The administration block was impressively designed, surrounded by a corridor plan layout and grand sweeping lawns (with a stone carved fountain) which flanked the original reception area although this has since been drastically modernised and now serves as the back of the site. Lunacy and melancholia were but a few of the commonly diagnosed symptoms being treated and numbers during the asylum's peak capacity reached just over 2000 patients and staff.
In 1856 a patient named Daniel Dolley was accidentally killed in the asylum under the orders of medical superintendant, Charles Snape during a routine hydrotherapy chastisement. The patient who was 65 had been acting hyperactively previously that day and was subjected to 28 minutes of cold water showering. Orders were given for the treatment to be followed with the administration of 2 grains of potassium antimony tartrate which is a poisonous crystalline compound often used in the treatment of parasitic infections and which can cause severe gastric inflammation. Daniel Dolley suffered a fatal convulsion only a few minutes after the treatment ceased.
Charles Snape was later charged with manslaughter, however the jury later stated that he had no case to answer and he was sent back to work at Springfield.
Recent years have seen the Institution at the focus of a great deal of media attention and controversy due to a high number of violent crimes relating to Springfield patient 'escapees'. The Freedom of Information Act revealed that 30 patients have escaped from secure wards in the hospital since 2005. In 2009 the Hospital has already experienced 2 absconds and 1 escape, one of whom is a rapist named Barrington Gordon as reported by a London Paper.
Much to the outrage of local residents the hospital boasts that it is not a high security facility but is only medium secure, yet the hospital receives 'day trips' from criminally insane patients from maximum security facilities such as Broadmoor. Perhaps the successful rehabilitation and support provided by a hospital of this scale is easily overlooked when it is overshadowed by so many systematic safety failures.
Springfield certainly appears to be a strange mix of open wards where people are free to 'walk through' in stark contrast to other areas that resemble a maximum security facility with courtyards penned off by curved edged fencing. In February 2009 a convicted killer named Paul Caesar who was on unescorted leave within the hospital grounds absconded and committed suicide on rail tracks.
In 2004 a patient who had escaped stabbed a man to death in Richmond Park. Another sad incident happened in 2000 when a patient named Anthony Josef was discharged only to stalk and murder his social worker, Jenny Morrison, who cared for him. Again, in 2006 a patient randomly killed fitness instructor Matthew Carter. And previously in 2003 a male nurse named Mamade Chattun was brutally beaten to death in the Hospital lobby by patient, Joseph Cann who had been sectioned the previous day.
The hospital accepted a fine of £28,000 in court and pleaded guilty to neglect resulting in Mamade's inability to seek any help or alert the authorities during the frenzied attack; he was provided with no attack alarm or radio for his safety and the nearby wall alarm was broken as were several others around the hospital.
When I got closer, I could see that it was actually not a real plane; it's a full scale model with painted on flap lines. The plane in the background was the last one built by the Granvilles, a prototype for the Army that never made it.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
From Left, Christian Nascimento '97, Ronald H. Romanowicz '68, Eric M. Guzy '19, Bill Campbell, Abigail R. Ferrie '20, Anthony C. Stanowski '84, Robert J. Hawley '62.
Springfield Skyscraper now finished with underground parking and aerial mast.....not finished but this is what my build in A town would look like if I had theroom
This is what I did with Springfield HS. A nice water fountain to welcome the students each morning. Plenty of outdoor seating for the students to study, or hang out with classmates.
Governor Charlie Baker, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Beth Card and Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Doug Rice join kids and state and local officials to kick off DCR’s annual Summer Nights Initiative in Springfield on July 5, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Liverpool, England
Pre-digital from my old 35mm neg. These are the early 1800s town houses which used to be situated on the corner of St. Anne Street and Springfield, their address being numbers 1 and 3 Springfield. They housed a doctors practice for many decades previously. Does anyone remember going there?
They were listed Grade II at one time but this did not save them from demolition. This was mainly because they had been neglected for so long beforehand and were well beyond economic repair. They were boarded up when I took this photo around 1992 and were still boarded up ten years later. In truth they were plain and lacking much interest, except for an exquisite fanlight.
The adjacent properties at numbers 5 and 7 Springfield (not in picture) were lodging houses run by the Bushell family. They owned the late Victorian cork warehouse building further down Springfield on the corner of Harker Street. A new fire station now occupies the whole corner site. Holy Trinity church used to occupy the cleared land opposite.
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