Chaldon, St Lawrence's Hospital c.1965
Photo ref:
C482003
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This stretch of country used to have three major hospitals, the most famous of which was Cane Hill, built as a lunatic asylum in 1882. St Lawrence's Hospital, to the west of Caterham and east of the tiny hill hamlet of Chaldon, was built in 1869 as the Metropolitan Asylum for London's insane; it accommodated 1,000 men and 1,200 women in its vast ranges of buildings, seen on the left in this view. The early 1960s buildings in the foreground were added for a school for children with learning difficulties. All has been swept away since, to be replaced by housing estates. The hospital's name is preserved in a road name: St Lawrence Way.
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