The Bedford Lemere daybook records that the architect of this building was E J Hall.
The ‘Metropolitan Asylums Board’ (MAB) was established under the 1867 Metropolitan Poor Act. The Board provided hospitals for patients who had previously been provided for by workhouses. Establishments built and run by the MAB included isolation hospitals for fevers and smallpox, ‘mental hospitals’ for people with severe learning disabilities, and tuberculosis hospitals. The Board was dissolved in 1930.
Sources: Langdondown Museum of Learning Disability, ‘The Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB)’, Langdondown Museum website, accessed 22/11/2024.
National Archives, ‘Metropolitan Asylums Board’, National Archives website, accessed 22/11/2024.
Wikipedia, ‘Metropolitan Asylums Board’, Wikipedia website, accessed 22/11/2024.
Workhouses.org, ‘The Metropolitan Asylums Board’, Workhouses.org website, accessed 22/11/2024.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Architect: Hall, E J
Photographer: H, H: Bedford Lemere And Company
Victorian Office