Wellingtonia 21

Captured outside the central building of what used to be Long Grove Hospital, that is to say the north western member of the Epsom cluster, to the west of Horton Lane. 

A postcard borrowed from Wikipedia. Plenty of planting, but no Wellingtonia to be seen.

A more recent picture, turned up by Bing, from reference 2.

A planners' map of Horton Hospital (bottom right) and Long Grove Hospital (top left), prepared as part of the consultation for redevelopment. More or less identical designs which, seemingly, meant that the plans for Long Grove went through much faster than they might otherwise have. While BH remembers a similar, semi-circular, arterial corridor in the hospital at Exminster. Very cold and draughty in the winter it was too. Probably unheated, except for heat drifting in from other parts of the building.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/01/wellingtonia-20.html.

Reference 2: https://www.countyasylums.co.uk/. A UK counterpart to the book about state hospitals  in the US last noticed at reference 4.

Reference 3: https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/hospitals/horton/. Our Horton hospital is not to be confused with this one in Banbury. A place I once visited in the margins of something more businesslike, as I wanted to see the Banbury Cross of the nursery rhyme. Which I did, but my memory is that the fine lady nearby which is snapped above was not very impressive in the dark. With one of which is behind the camera. With thanks to Stratford490 for the snap. While reference 5 reminds me that this cross was erected in the middle of the nineteenth century in tribute to Queen Victoria, the three old crosses which once adorned the town then long gone.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/05/piano-11.html.

Reference 5: http://www.banbury-cross.co.uk/banhistory.htm.

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