Droitwich Spa was reopened in 2006. Droitwich's first workhouse was set up on Holloway in 1688 and were finally abolished in the 1920s. Droitwich Lunatic Asylum was established in 1791. Records at the Worcestershire County Record Office show its presence in 1837 to 1838. An advert in the Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (the forerunner of the British Medical Association) in 1844, records that Martin Ricketts, of Droitwich, was the Surgeon and Sir Charles Hastings from the Worcester Infirmary was the Physician. In 1714 the first Turnpike in Worcestershire was opened to Worcester. A commemorative plaque was unveiled by
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