Editing Droitwich Spa (section)

===Asylums, workhouses and the town hall===
[[File:The Old Town Hall (geograph 6710641).jpg|thumb|The [[Old Town Hall, Droitwich Spa|Old Town Hall]]]]
Droitwich's first workhouse was set up on Holloway in 1688<ref>[http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Droitwich/ The workhouse: Droitwich, Worcestershire at workhouses.org.uk] Accessed 2017-05-31</ref> and the last 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, England|Worcester]] Infirmary was the Physician.

The [[Old Town Hall, Droitwich Spa|Old Town Hall]], which is in St Andrews Street, was completed in 1826.<ref>{{NHLE|desc= Town Hall |num=1095978|access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref>