Martin Brooks has spent almost four years compiling the stories The stories of the people, places and events that made up the history of Leavesden Asylum/Hospital have been told in a new book. Martin Brooks, founder of the Leavesden Hospital History Association and former park ranger, has interviewed many former staff of the hospital and collected hundreds of first hand accounts that detail the heritage and culture of caring at the facility. After almost four years of work, Martin has compiled some of these stories in
Acts of Caring and Other Heroics – Stories from the Leavesden Asylum/Hospital – 1868 to 1995 which has now been published by the Independent Publishers Network.