No Cure, No Fee, Boarding Excepted: Mason’s Madhouses In Old Fishponds

People’s University of Fishponds – Sun 28 Jan 2024 – 7:00om – The Nissen Hut, Eastville Park, Bristol.

Journalist, Fishponds Voice History columnist and Bristol Radical History Group author Mike Jempson will reveal some of the fascinating facts his research dug up about the old private madhouse which dominated Fishponds in its day. His talk includes some of the institution’s more startling treatments, the sensational public inquiry and the shameful end of the Mason dynasty – the family firm that ran this biggest private asylum outside of London for 120 years. Drawing on museum archives and patient testimonies, this fascinating and meticulously researched book, No Cure, No Fee, Boarding Excepted: Mason’s Madhouses In Old Fishponds is full of little known Fishponds facts – including the surprising origin of the term ‘Spin doctors’.

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