{"id":1255,"date":"2014-05-06T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2014-05-06T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:40:22","slug":"inside-the-asylum-eerie-images-of-abandoned-victorian-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Inside &#8216;The Asylum&#8217;: Eerie images of abandoned Victorian hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b><span>St John&#8217;s Asylum in Lincolnshire &#8211; which has been derelict since 1990 &#8211; was known for its electric shock treatment<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span>Photographs captured by student Jonathon Tattersall after he visited now-derelict hospital which was built in 1852<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span>Administration of hospital passed to the NHS in 1948 and by 1960s it was known by final name of St John&#8217;s Hospital<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>With paint peeling from the walls and doors left to rot, these eerie photographs provide a fascinating insight inside an abandoned mental hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>St John&#8217;s Asylum in Lincolnshire was known for its electric shock treatment &#8211; and rife with stories about inmates committing suicide in their padded cells.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These pictures were captured by student Jonathon Tattersall, 22, after he visited the now-derelict hospital to get a closer look of what remained inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eerie: St John's Asylum in Lincolnshire was known for its electric shock treatment - and was rife with stories about inmates committing suicide in their padded cells\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2013\/10\/16\/article-2462653-18C5681800000578-2_964x640.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"640\" data-track-pos=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read more: <a title=\"Inside the Asylum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2462653\/Haunting-images-abandoned-mental-hospital-patients-subject-cruel-treatments.html#ixzz2qZdcCtMf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2462653\/Haunting-images-abandoned-mental-hospital-patients-subject-cruel-treatments.html#ixzz2qZdcCtMf<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you to Martin Ford and Tim Goosey for this post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St John&#8217;s Asylum in Lincolnshire &#8211; which has been derelict since 1990 &#8211; was known for its electric shock treatment Photographs captured by student Jonathon Tattersall after he visited now-derelict hospital which was built in 1852 Administration of hospital passed to the NHS in 1948 and by 1960s it was known by final name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,17],"tags":[4,80],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photos","tag-news","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}