| Description | Includes Hull City Mental Hospital/Willerby De La Pole Hospital ephemera and photographs 20th century; articles, papers and reviews written by Dr J A R Bickford 1953-1983; ‘The Private Lunatic Asylums of the East Riding’ typescript by Dr J A R and M E Bickford c.1976; ‘The Medical Profession in Hull 1400-1900’ book by Dr J A R and M E Bickford 1983, ‘East Riding Medical Men’ annotated draft by Dr J A R and M E Bickford 2007, reminiscences of working at the Willerby De La Pole Hospital 1950s-1980s by Dr J A R Bickford nd. [c.1980s], Board of Control Circular relating to Emergency (War) Arrangements for Mental Hospitals 1940, St Andrew’s Kirk Ella and St Luke’s Willerby records 1939-2011, ‘Vicars of Kirk Ella’ reprints of articles in Kirk Ella parish magazine and research files 1983-2004, ‘The Vicars of Kirk Ella’ articles by Parochialis (copies) 1963-1983, correspondence and research of M E Bickford as parish archivist of Kirk Ella 1981-2008, research files relating to Robert Wittie, Picards of Hull and Grimston family 1974-2008 and Kirk Ella local history records 1929-2003, village photographs nd. [c.1880s-1901], school dramatic society programmes 1964-1971 |
| AdminHistory | James Arscott Raleigh Bickford was born in Tavistock, Devon. He qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital medical school in 1941. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He arrived at De La Pole, a large Victorian psychiatric hospital, as a deputy superintendent in 1953, and became consultant psychiatric and medical superintendent from 1956-1981.
With his wife Margaret Bickford he wrote a series of publications about Hull and East Riding psychiatric hospitals and local medical men. They lived in Kirk Ella and were keen parishioners of St Andrew’s Church. They wrote a series of articles about Kirk Ella in the local parish magazine. James Bickford died in 2009 aged 91 years, his wife Margaret Bickford died in 2016 aged 89 years. |