Grizzly Stuff

How his case was a catalyst for others speaking out – by Clare Crabb, NSPCC Assistant Director for the North West

Who was he, why was he on Bury New Road, and what did he change?

In 2013 there was an investigation about Jimmy Savile abusing a young girl at Prestwich Hospital in 1960. Warning! Contains horrific details...

After the hospital’s Doctor Montagu Lomax published his book, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor in 1921, the country changed its attitude towards people with mental health problems...

Interviews with ex-staff from the hospital shine a light on some gruesome goings on...

The good, the bad and the very ugly!

What is it? What did it change? And just how important is the hospital that led to improved care for the whole country and was instrumental in the beginnings of the trade union movement?

From Mosley in the 1930s to the National Front in the 1970s, Bury New Road has always figured in the fight against racism and fascism...

Historic irony on Bury New Road...

Local author, Alice Searle, uncovers executions, suicides and ghosts on Kersal Moor...