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Description: | Built on land given by Henry Hall of the Manor House, these buildings are, on the left, the Curtis Museum (formerly The Mechanics Institute), and in the centre, Inwood Cottage Hospital. Both were opened in 1880 (together with the Assembly Rooms, which are off the picture to the right), having been designed by C E Barry and constructed by the Alton firm of J H and E Dyer. The Mechanics Institute was renamed the Curtis Museum after the death of its guiding light, William Curtis who died in 1881. The Cottage Hospital was named after Daniel Inwood of Binsted who left £1,500 in his will for this purpose. This remained Alton's Cottage hospital until 1951 when the Alton General Hospital in Anstey Road took over its medical functions, Inwood remaining as training and living quarters for nurses for some years. It was eventually left empty and abandoned until 1983 when the Shaftsbury Housing Association renovated it and reopened it as sheltered accommodation, calling it Inwood Court. On 21st October 1880 the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Selborne officially opened the Institute and the Museum. In the centre of the picture is the War Memorial erected in 1920 at a cost of £179 and consisting of 30 tons of Cornish granite. It was designed by Mr Chancellor and erected by J D Kemp. The cairn replaced a fountain which was one of two presented to the town by Miss Bell of Borovere in 1880. The one from here was moved to the corner of Anstey Road and Paper Mill Lane in 1920 at a cost of £63 by D J Kemp & Sons. In the early 1960s it was removed to the Town Council yard till about 1969 when it was reerected in the Public Gardens. Miss Bell's other fountain is still in its original position in Butts Road. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | war memorial Crown Close Barry C E building Earl of Selborne Inwood Cottage Hospital Bell Daniel Inwood street Shaftsbury Housing Association museum High Street William Curtis cottage hospital Mechanics Institute J H and E Dyer J D Kemp Curtis Museum fountain Henry Hall cairn Chancellor hospital | Temporal: | start=1920-01-01; end=1939-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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