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    • 2018/2019 | Local suppliers to Normansfield – 1868 to the 1930s
      • L is for Laundry, Lemonade and Local Photographer
      • Music and Weaving at Normansfield
      • Local Suppliers 1868-1930s
      • Bringing Electric Lighting to Normansfield
      • Normansfield Farm and the Local Economy
    • 2017 | The Staff who worked at Normansfield, 1868 – 1997
      • Employment at Normansfield
      • The Laundry and Linen
      • Frances Mary Palling, Governess
      • Early Chaplains at Normansfield
      • Staff and the First World War
      • William Henry Briggs
      • Normansfield Theatre
      • Memories of Normansfield, Summer 1977
    • 2016 | The History of Normansfield’s Buildings
      • Before 1868
      • 1868 – 1873
      • 1874 – 1880
      • 1881- 1890
      • 1891
      • 1891 – 1893
      • 1894 – 1897
      • 1898 – 1900
      • 1901 – 1910
      • 1911 – 1914
      • 1915
      • 1916 – 1944
      • 1945 – 1950
      • 1951 – 1963
      • 1964 – 1976
      • 1977 – 1979
      • 1980 – 1997
      • 1998 – 2010
      • 2011 – 2016
    • 2014 | Long Stay Institutions for People with Learning Disabilities
      • Earlswood Asylum
      • The Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB)
      • Leavesden Hospital
      • Darenth
      • Tooting Bec Asylum
      • The Fountain Hospital
      • The Five Hospitals that made up the Epsom Cluster
      • Botleys Park Hospital
    • 2013 | Normansfield: The Early Years 1868 to 1913
      • Introduction
      • Mental Deficiency and Treatment at Normansfield
      • Patients’ Statistics
      • Fees and Charges
      • Staff
      • Teaching
      • Case Study: Ida Penelope Page
      • Case Study: Robert Belchamber
  • Normansfield Residents
    • Patricia Collen
    • Dolly Freeman
    • Tony Hudson
    • Walter Ridpath

Normansfield Residents

Read the life stories of four Normansfield residents

Patricia Collen

Dolly Freeman

Tony Hudson

Walter Ridpath

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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY EVENT

Remembering Aktion T4

Monday 27 January 2020 | Museum open 2pm – 5pm

2.30pm Talk: Finding Ivy: From Belonging and alienation and back again

Speakers: Helen Atherton and Florian Schwanninger

The story of one victim of the Aktion T4 programme. Ivy was born in the UK and in 1930 went to live in an institution in Vienna. In the summer of 1940 she was killed at Hartheim castle near Linz. Different historical material has been used to tell Ivy’s story including photographs, church records, census reports and newspapers.

3.30pm Aktion T4: A documentary film

The Aktion T4 Nazi Euthanasia programme was responsible for the murder of approximately 275,000 people with learning disabilities.

In this 30 minute documentary film, Berge Kanikanian who has Down’s syndrome, travels to Poland and Germany to visit the sites of euthanasia centres and speaks to researchers and historians.

Please note this talk and film is not suitable for anyone under 16 years of age.

This event is free. Booking not required.

See: Talks and Tours


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