Rubery Hill Hospital

The hospital, which was designed by William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain using a Standard Pavilion layout, opened as the Second Birmingham City Asylum in January 1882.^[2][3] Additional ward pavilions were completed in 1897.^[2] It became the 1st Birmingham War Hospital during the First World War and then became Rubery Hill Mental Hospital in 1919.^[2] During the Second World War it remained a civilian establishment.^[2] It joined the National Health Service as Rubery Hill Hospital in 1948.^[2] Patient numbers peaked in the 1950s.^[4]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1993.^[2] Most of the buildings were subsequently demolished and have been replaced by housing.^[2]