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Lancaster, County Asylum 1891 (ref: 28606)
 Year: 1958 chapel
Each week, as a 15 - 16 year-old, I used to cycle from Morecambe on a Sunday morning for an organ lesson at the chapel of the Moor Hospital. It was uphill there and downhill home. My teacher was the organist there, also Director of Music at LRGS, and my lesson started after the Sunday morning service. As I progressed I was allowed to play the recesssional after the service. Every few years I come back to look at that magnificant building (the Annex) and think of all those thousands of people, staff and patients, who kept that sanctuary alive - a city within a city - which care within the community cannot now hope to replicate. I regret its demise and the safe haven it provided for so many people.

Posted: 24/04/2008 22:34 by Ian Gerrard  

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Lancaster, the Entrance to Williamson Park c1955 (ref: L10059)
 Year: 1880s Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house.  He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.

Last edited: 15/10/2006 21:35 by Hazel Veitch  

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