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A History of the County of Hertford
… of Watford. At Leavesden are situated the Metropolitan Asylum for Imbeciles, with accommodation for 2,000 inmates, … the erection of the large buildings of the London Orphan Asylum on the rising ground near the station, helped to bring …
A History of the County of Essex
… the late 1820s an idiot girl was boarded at Bethnal Green asylum, the parish paying extra for hair-cutting, laundry, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… as an Anglican educational institution. 73 It was a lunatic asylum from 1897 to 1906, then a school for mental …
A History of the County of Essex
… Act, 1898 61 & 62 Vict. c. 259 (local act). 'W. Ham's new Lunatic Asylum', Municipal Jnl. 9 Aug. 1901; W.H.L., Goodmayes Mental …
Survey of London
… Harriet Burrow, the daughter of a widow who owned a lunatic asylum in Hoxton. The couple rented the Rodney Street house …
Old and New London
… and indeed a very sink of iniquity. It grew into an asylum for vagabonds, debtors, thieves, highwaymen, coiners, …
Survey of London
… is now covered by blocks of dwellings. The Female Orphan Asylum And Christ Church In 1758 a group of Noblemen and … and it is now at High Wycombe. 172 Part of the site of the asylum was taken over in 1873 by J. Oakey & Sons, and the … vol. 9, Blake London, by T. F. Ordish. An Account of the Asylum or House of Refuge 1763. Pietas Londinensis, by A. …