Former ventilating tower
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Former ventilating tower by Mike Kirby as part of the Geograph project.
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Former ventilating tower
Image: © Mike Kirby Taken: 11 Mar 2009
This ventilating tower, part of the Paupers' Lunatic Asylum,(later Stanley Royd Hospital), is a grade II listed structure dated 1818. Built in white brick, cold air was drawn through this tower into the asylum.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.690606
Longitude
-1.489304