{"id":884218,"date":"2026-09-08T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:06:09","slug":"bristols-century-old-asylum-stories-revealed-in-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884218\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol&#8217;s century-old asylum stories revealed in photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Century-old photographs of patients treated in a mental asylum during the Victorian and Edwardian eras are being unearthed to give a rare insight into the lives they led. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Tobia, a former mental health nurse, is devoting his time to studying the patient records of people treated at the hospital known, at the time, as Bristol Lunatic Asylum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tobia already leads talks about the patients, and the photographs are being exhibited at the Glenside Hospital Museum, based near Frenchay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;From about 1890, they started taking photographs of the patients, and these I became particularly interested in because they were really evocative. I felt they really brought the patients to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Century-old photographs of patients treated in a mental asylum during the Victorian and Edwardian eras are being unearthed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-884218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}