Curator’s blog
Discover a treasure trove of local history and some unusual artefacts in this regularly updated blog from our curator.
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Charles Hitchcock
Charles Hitchcock owned and supervised the Fiddington House asylum for much of the second half of the nineteenth century. Fiddington, as ever, provides a slight inconvenience in that the area with th...
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