Powick Hospital opened its doors in 1852 as the Worcestershire City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. It finally closed in 1989 and its scant remains survive on land now occupied by a housing estate. Ken Crump is one of our members and draws from his personal experience of the hospital from when he worked there as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse from1963 until it closed. He has a wealth of knowledge about the extensive buildings and many people who were treated there.