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Description: | 1848.
Drawing of Meanwood Hall in 1848, from a watercolour by W.R. Robinson. Built as a family home in 1762 by Thomas Denison of Leeds (1720 - 1769), it was rented by various tenants after his death until bought by banker Christopher Beckett (1777 - 1847) in1824. It was owned by the Beckett family for a long time; Christopher's sisters Mary and Elizabeth occupied it after his death, and it was later rented out again. The last known individual tenant was colliery owner R.W. Bower before it was rented to Leeds Corporation in 1919 to become Meanwood Park Hospital, a 'colony' for the mentally handicapped. Leeds Corporation bought the site in 1921 and extended the estate, building villas in the ground. It was later taken over by the NHS until the hospital finally closed in 1997. The site is now occupied by housing. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Meanwood Hospital Meanwood Hall | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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