Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster - sugar cask - Red Rose Collections from Lancashire County Council

iBase ID

276999

Reference identifier

nla20180907018

Title

Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster - sugar cask

Place

Lancaster

General notes

This sugar cask from the Museum in the Royal Albert was used to admit a patient to the hospital - 'having spent the first 12 years of his life in it.'
Following the closure of the Royal Albert Hospital in 1996 Susan E Stuart, the foremost authority on the history of Gillows furniture, was invited to inspect some items that remained at the hospital. The records of the Waring and Gillow company show that the firm supplied large quantities of furniture to the hospital during the late 19th century and these were identified from the designs in the 'Estimate Sketch Books' which show the designs to be simplified (and presumably cheaper) versions of some of their more popular designs.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Original image size

10.29 x 14.86

Year of image

1996

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Mario Map link

MARIO Map

Web link

Gillows of Lancaster and London on Wikipedia