Lancaster Moor Hospital
Introduction
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Lancaster Moor Hospital
Image: © Michael Graham Taken: 8 Feb 2011
The low building in the foreground is the former kitchen where thousands of meals a day were cooked for the patients. Beyond that is Starkie Hall, which in the sixties served as the dining hall. Hundreds of flat-capped inmates wearing green aprons would sit at long tables. As a small boy I recall being terrified by the noise and general commotion in the hall when visiting my father who worked in the offices which were under the large tower. The tree-lined grass bank with a wall around was an 'airing court', not for drying washing but for the inmates to get some fresh air under supervision.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.049135
Longitude
-2.772947