Friern

As the Bethlemites settled into their new home in Lambeth, another asylum was rising in north London, at Colney Hatch now better known as Friern Barnet.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

As the Bethlemites settled into their new home in Lambeth, another asylum was rising in north London, at Colney Hatch now better known as Friern Barnet.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

As the Bethlemites settled into their new home in Lambeth, another asylum was rising in north London, at Colney Hatch now better known as Friern Barnet.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Kar's masterpiece is a magnificent Augustus John, at home in 1959 at Friern Court, with a backdrop of paintings, including a Gwen John, and some of his own late essays in sculpture, a form he took up to give himself something new to explore.

Portraits of the artists 2011

Friern Barnet, meanwhile, and the other mansions of the mad were sold off to property developers, the twilight wards and clammy cells transformed into bijou apartments for City folk.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Friern Barnet, meanwhile, and the other mansions of the mad were sold off to property developers, the twilight wards and clammy cells transformed into bijou apartments for City folk.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The massive Victorian hospitals such as Friern Barnet formerly Colney Hatch were shut down and the land sold off for private development.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The massive Victorian hospitals such as Friern Barnet formerly Colney Hatch were shut down and the land sold off for private development.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Friern Barnet, meanwhile, and the other mansions of the mad were sold off to property developers, the twilight wards and clammy cells transformed into bijou apartments for City folk.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The massive Victorian hospitals such as Friern Barnet formerly Colney Hatch were shut down and the land sold off for private development.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008