Sutton, The South Metropolitan District Schools 1896
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These imposing Victorian buildings were constructed in 1853 and extended in 1871. They were the South Metropolitan District Schools, where over 1,500 pauper children from south London were sent, as well as any vagrant children spotted by the authorities. The school closed in 1902 and had a variety of uses, including acting as a workhouse. Finally it became an industrial neurosis unit and psychiatric hospital, before being demolished in 1982. It was replaced by a housing estate, Belmont Heights, with access across the railway line from the Brighton Road, north of Belmont Station.
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