Exhibition 'The Big House - The History of Shelton Hospital'

Custom built and opened in 1845, Shelton Hospital treated over 1,000 patients at its height. Behind the asylum walls the hospital was a self-sufficient community, with its own cricket and football sides, a band, a farm and even a brewery. In September 2012 the hospital closed and its role has been taken over by a new mental health village built nearby. The Grade II listed building is now being adapted into housing by Shropshire Homes. This exhibition brings together some of the archival material, artefacts and memories collected as part of a heritage project during the hospital’s final days which aimed to record the long history of the site. Project Officer and local historian Dan Reeves says "There are a lot of local people whose lives this place has touched. The idea of this project is to humanise the statistics you always get and to get the human stories that go behind those statistics."
Admission
Included in the general admission ticket to the Museum & Art Gallery. Adult £4.50, person of state pension age £4.00, student £3.60, child (5-17) £2, family (2 adults + 3 children) £10, family (1 adult + 3 children) £7.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/wm000021?id=EVENT552526