A man waiting on the low flat ferry boat at Little Stoke Ferry, with a passenger ferry moored alongside and 'Moulsford Asylum' in the distance

Date:
1890
Location:
Little Stoke Ferry, South Stoke, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
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Moulsford Asylum, Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
County Lunatic Asylum, Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
Berkshire Lunatic Asylum, Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
Berkshire Mental Hospital, Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
Fairmile Hospital, Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
Reference:
CC72/01022
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The ferry was used to enable corn wagons to cross the river at this point. 'Moulsford Asylum', built in 1870, was later known as 'Bekshire Lunatic Asylum' (from 1897), 'Berkshire Mental Hospital' (from 1915), and finally Fair Mile Hospital from 1948. It was closed in 2003.

Content

This is part of the Series: HWT01/01 Glass Plate Negatives And Inkjet Prints; within the Collection: HWT01 Henry W Taunt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Taunt, Henry William

Curator: Davies, Angela

Keywords

Victorian Hospital, Victorian Psychiatric Hospital, Ferry Crossing, Landing Stage, Waterscape, People Posed, Water Transport