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Living Away From Home

3rd Jan, 2012 to 28th Jan, 2012

Life in some of Surrey’s Victorian and Edwardian residential institutions

On display in the Surrey History Centre foyer.

In collaboration with Surrey History Centre, Royal Holloway University of London has created a display looking at life in three kinds of residential institutions which were common in Surrey at the turn of the twentieth century:

• Holloway Sanatorium, a mental hospital for the middle classes at Virginia Water;
• Charterhouse, a public school for boys near Godalming; and
• common lodging houses for the poor in Redhill, Chertsey and Staines.

It considers how these places were organised and decorated and gives a glimpse of how some of the people who lived there reacted to their surroundings.

Surrey History Centre foyer
Tues 3  – 28 January 2012 (during normal opening times).
Admission is free.

Contact Surrey History Centre for more details:
130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 6ND
01483 518737 (Tues-Sat)
Email: shs@surreycc.gov.uk
www.surreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistorycentre

Visit Royal Holloway University of London's on-line gallery: Snapshots of Institutional Life.