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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

What's On

MUSEUM & THEATRE OPEN DAY

10AM–5PM SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2019

Talk & tour 11am – 12.00pm: Historic European Theatres Day & Normansfield Theatre

1pm – 2pm Tour of the museum and theatre.


© The Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability and the Langdon Down Centre are owned and
managed by the Down’s Syndrome Association. Registered Charity no 1061474