St Lawrence's Hospital was a mental health facility in Caterham, Surrey.
[2] In 1928 Joey Deacon, the author and television personality, was admitted to the hospital where he remained for the rest of his life.
[2] A nurse was killed when a bomb fell on the hospital in November 1940 during the Second World War.
[1] It was renamed St Lawrence's Hospital after the local parish in 1941 and it joined the National Health Service in 1948.
[2] In 1981 Silent Minority, a documentary film made by Nigel Evans for ATV, highlighted the conditions of mental patients at the Borocourt Hospital near Reading, Berkshire and at St Lawrence's Hospital in Caterham.