Colchester, The Asylum 1891
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Heavily influenced by the baroque style of Hawksmoor, this fine building, now demolished, was built as the Victoria Hotel in 1843 to cash in on the arrival of the railway. Not a success, it closed to re-open in 1849 as an Asylum for Infant Idiots, later more tactfully renamed the Essex Hall Hospital.
An extract from Colchester Photographic Memories.
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