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Description: | Built on land given by Henry Hall of the Manor House, the three public buildings are, on the left, the Mechanics Institute, in the centre, Inwood Cottage Hospital, and on the right, the Assembly Rooms. All three were opened in 1880 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. The Assembly Rooms were opened on October 19th 1880 with a dramatic and musical entertainment entitled The Chimney Corner performed by the Pickwick Historical Club. On 21st October the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Selborne officially opened the Institute and the Museum. The fountain in the centre of the picture was one of two presented to the town by Miss Bell of Borovere in 1880. This one was removed to the corner of Anstey Road and Paper Mill Lane in 1920 to make way for the War Memorial 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.
Copy of a postcard. | 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: | Dyer, J H and E building Inwood Cottage Hospital Daniel Inwood museum William Curtis cottage hospital Mechanics Institute C E Barry fountain Curtis Museum Henry Hall Assembly Rooms hospital | Temporal: | start=1880-01-01; end=1914-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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