afterlife of a grand victorian institution
How the School for the Blind’s landmark building fell into disrepair and has found a new use but contains echoes of the past.
Chiswick House, London
Maison Dieu, Faversham
Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind, Liverpool
Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability, Teddington
The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate
Guild of the Brave Poor Things, Bristol
St Saviour’s Deaf Church, Acton
Grove Road Housing Scheme, Sutton-in-Ashfield
How the School for the Blind’s landmark building fell into disrepair and has found a new use but contains echoes of the past.
Is the idea of ‘progress’ real? Academic Miro Griffiths chooses some favourite stories from our history, and asks how much has changed.
Why a club for disabled people, which lasted for almost a century, decided to close in the 1980s.
The History of Place project visits eight locations across the country, over eight hundred years to rediscover the lives, pictures and stories of some of these people.
Maison Dieu (‘House of God’) is one of a handful of remarkable survivals which stand at the beginning of our story of deaf and disabled people through history.