Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum fire, 1903
The ruins of the temporary annexe at the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London), following the disasterous fire there in 1903. 51 patients perished, but more might have been saved, claims the text in the Illustrated London News that accompanies this picture, had not the unfortunate inmates rushed towards the flames instead of away from them
Picture No
13990401
Media ID
45427221
Size
5773px x 4480px
(2.0MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Illustrated London News', 7 February 1903, page 188 also in The Sphere', 7 February 1903, page ii
Date
1903
