The Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots, Lancaster, 1876. Institution for children with learning problems: '...for the reception, care, and instruction of idiots from all the northern counties of was erected at the cost of £77,000, upon an estate of eighty-six architects were Messrs. Paley and the central block is a handsome tower, the cost of which was provided by Sir Titus Salt's donation of £ is accommodation for six hundred inmates; the boys are in the south wing and the girls in the north wing. The building includes a fine large din
The Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots, Lancaster, 1876. Institution for children with learning problems: '...for the reception, care, and instruction of idiots from all the northern counties of was erected at the cost of £77,000, upon an estate of eighty-six architects were Messrs. Paley and the central block is a handsome tower, the cost of which was provided by Sir Titus Salt's donation of £ is accommodation for six hundred inmates; the boys are in the south wing and the girls in the north wing. The building includes a fine large and class-rooms, dormitories, workshops, offices, and apartments for private general intrusted to a large and influential central committee, consisting of representatives appointed by the local committees and of fifteen of the active friends of the asylum'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
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