June 2026 archive

Bricks, concrete and shadows

 There is a stretch of seventeenth century garden wall left to show where the house once stood.  One of many hospital carparks takes up the space that was once an ornamental lake, filled in after a nurse drowned.  The Samuel Boyce Lodge, described as a “psychiatry elderly unit”, stands on what were once the gardens.  …

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