"Patients at work amang the neeps'"

Maker
Baugh
Production date
Autumn 1902
 Description
A group of of patients of the Stirling District Asylum in a uniform of cap, dark jacket and white trousers have lifted swedes from the garden using a fork, topped them and loaded them into two barrows. Taken from 'The Passing Hour: the magazine and chronicle of the Stirling District Asylum' Vols 1-3,1901-1903

This photo is not available as a scanned image. You can see the original in the Archives in Callendar House.

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Maker
Production date
Autumn 1902
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Subject place
Stirling District Asylum/Bellsdyke Rd/Bellsdyke/Larbert area
Subject notes
Swede is a type of turnip, referred to in Scots as neep. They were and are used for human consumption and as fodder for livestock. They were also used to make lanterns at Halloween.

The District Asylum was for patients with mental health problems. It was opened on 2 February 1869. The patients came from the so-called 'lunatic' wards of poorhouses in Stirling, Linlithgow, and Dumbarton and Falkirk Parochial Asylum. Its name was changed in the 1950s to Bellsdyke Hospital.

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Accession number
P24970

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