Water tower, Coulsdon
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The photograph on this page of Water tower, Coulsdon by Stephen Richards as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 21 Jan 2017
All that remains of this once vast psychiatric hospital, which opened in the 1880s and was mostly closed by the early 1990s, is the water tower, a fragment of the administration block, and the chapel (Image]). It has not fared well in comparison with some other examples of the type. A serious fire in 2010 compounded the large-scale clearance for a Barratt's housing development.
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