A bench has been dedicated to the memory of a mental health pioneer at the High Royds Memorial Garden in Menston.
High Royds Psychiatric Hospital, which closed in 2003, gained an international reputation for biological research into mental disorders, through the work of Dr Roy Powell Hullin FRCS, who established and was head of the Hospital’s Metabolic Research Institute for 32 years.
He pioneered the treatment of manic depressive, or bipolar, disorder and is credited with helping thousands of people for whom previously there had been little hope.
Dr Hullin died in May 2012 at the age of 88 years, His widow, Freda Hullin, 91, visited the Memorial Garden and Chapel Open Day on Saturday, for the dedication of the bench in memory of Dr Hullin.
Dr Hullin was the first person who made steps to save the Garden, possibly as early as the 1970s.
There was an approach to have the old graveyard surfaced to make a car park for the nearby garage.
Dr Hullin contacted the Bishop of Bradford and then paid for a plaque to be put on the gates saying it was a graveyard dedicated to 2,861 former patients. This prevented any action being taken.
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