Inspiration for Belle Vue – 1: the Asylum

Writers are often advised write what you know but given Belle Vue is about murder, satanic orgies and mistreatment in Victorian lunatic asylums I am not putting my hand up to any of these! However I was inspired to write about each aspect from visiting and reading about the three, the connections between them and from there my imagination took over

I live near a block of luxury apartments which was converted from the original Leavesden Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles a name not to be...