Wanted: history detectives in London and Canterbury
Join us at venues including the former medieval hospital at Maison Dieu, St Saviour’s Deaf Church, Normansfield Hospital and Chiswick House – plus many archives.
Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability
Normansfield Hospital was founded by John Langdon Down in 1868 as a home for people with learning disabilities and a place where they could be educated. ‘Downs Syndrome’ is named after him. The site includes a Victorian theatre with its original fittings, which Down commissioned so that his patients could learn music and drama. His… Read more »
To Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability
A visit to Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability, where Francesca discovers a giant carnival figure created by one of the residents, James Henry Pullen.