Military Lunatic Asylum, Victoria House, Hound, Hampshire

Photograph taken September 1992 © Crown copyright.NMR ref: BB92/30178

Built in about 1870 this hospital treated military personnel who had developed mental illnesses. As technology allowed weapons of greater destructive ability to be made so the potential for mental as well as physical injury increased. The building is now a police-training centre.

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Hampshire Hound

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The Corn Exchange in Doncaster was built in 1870 and combines Victorian classical architecture with a dome reminiscent of that on the Crystal Palace, built 20 years earlier for the Great Exhibition (1851). The Corn Exchange is now used as a market hall.

Military Lunatic Asylum, Victoria House, Hound, Hampshire

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