Powick, Powyke Asylum 1910
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This extensive and grim asylum is a reminder of how earlier generations treated the mentally-ill by locking them away, often far from their homes and families. It remains a functional, if forbidding, example of Victorian architecture.
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the doctors more potty.too much booze
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