Holmes Winter - "Old Houses College Street, S. Albans."

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2002.5022.10

Plate 69 of 100 from part 7 (number 8) of Holmes Winters' series of etchings "The Last of Old St Albans". "Old Houses College Street, S. Albans. Sketched Sep 24 1898." Drawn and etched by Holmes-Winter. This building was formerly called the Collegium Insanorum, a private asylum on Lonwer Dagnall Street run by Dr. Nathaniel Cotton (1705 - 1788). Part of the original building was destroyed when College Street was built, hence the name of the street. The building seen here was demolished around 1910. Dr Cotton's most famous patient was the poet William Cowper, who was treated here between 1763-5.

1898

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College Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 17 (red). NB. We hold multiple copies of most of these images, all duplicates are in box 17. There is also a complete set, with cover, in box , from which most of these accession numbers come.