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Kirby Castle, Bethnal Green. (The "Blind Beggar's House.")
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Kirby Castle, Bethnal Green. (The "Blind Beggar's House.")
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Bethnal House or Kirby’s Castle. A notorious ‘private madhouse’ from 1727, variously known as Wright’s House, The Blind Beggar’s House and Kirby’s Castle.

Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum
Date 1873 (1887 copy)
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British Library HMNTS 010349.l.1.
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Image extracted from page 751 of volume 1 of Old and New London, Illustrated, by Walter Thornbury. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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