A fascinating rediscovery beneath the site of the former mental hospital thanks to the donation of a bundle of photos and documents
During the same time in 1868 that the Leavesden Asylum was being built, the St Pancras Middlesex organisation was busy laying the foundations for what would become the St Pancras Workhouse and Industrial School, Leavesden. Located on the south side of the same road, its gated entrance would be directly across from the main entrance into the Leavesden Asylum.
The St Pancras Workhouse and Industrial School officially opened in October of 1870 and cared for children/students, from the ages of 0 to 16 years old, who were housed in a large, Victorian styled building situated within the 60-acre site.
This was until around 1930 when the St Pancras Workhouse and Industrial School closed its doors and the children started to be cared for in smaller facilities or private homes which may have been the early start of what we now know as foster care.
The subway, originally located just a few meters up College Road from where the marked cross walk is now, had long sloping pathways and was used extensively by staff and patients walking from one side of the site to the other, for transporting patients who were in wheelchairs and for moving equipment and supplies from one side to the other by utilising small electric golf cart type vehicles.
Another story that I often heard and read about was that at some point in its history, the subway had its walls painted with large colourful murals by either the patients or the staff. From 2008 to 2011, during my time working at Leavesden Country Park, I did make several very clandestine digs around the north end of the subway and did indeed find some evidence of these paintings being there.
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