[1] The hospital, which was designed by Lewis Angell using a Compact Arrow layout and built by Leslie and Co, opened as the West Ham Borough Asylum in August 1901.

[1] Dr James Harvey Cuthbert, who served as the hospital superintendent, was a pioneer of electric shock therapy in the late 1930s.

[4] Part of the site was released in the early 1990s to allow the King George Hospital to be built.

[1] The hospital provides clinical placements in psychiatry for medical students from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

[5] In November 2015 the service provider, The Jumbo Sound, suffered major equipment damage following a radiator bursting and its subsequent humidity forcing the station off-air.