The Asylum, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum, Abergavenny, opened in 1851, becoming the Monmouthshire Lunatic Asylum in 1897. It was known as the Monmouthshire Mental Hospital from 1916 to 1923, was then renamed Pen-y-Val until 1950 when it became the Pen-y-Fal Hospital. It closed in 1996
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10576651
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Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
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Unattributed photograph on a postcard
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