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Very faded black and white photograph of large, stately home sized house or building. The image is taken on an angle showing the front and side of the building. The front has a small colonnade and the side has bay windows. It is laid to lawn around the building and there are shrubs near the house. Add to board
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Meanwood Hall or Meanwood Park Hospital, Leeds

Related to Meanwood Park, but no longer within the park boundaries, was Meanwood Park Hospital. It was a hospital for the ‘mentally handicapped’ from 1919 to the 1980s. This was the historical legal term that encompassed learning difficulties and mental health needs, and not a term we would use now. To help framing this with your class, you may wish to talk about ground rules, and look out for language around ‘otherness’ and difference linked to disability and mental health.

 

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