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    • Eshera Cow Hotel
    • Gagra railway Station
    • Military Sanatorium
    • Psyrtskha Railway Station
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    • Sanatorium Gruziya
    • Soviet Summer Camp
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    • Tkvarcheli Railway Station
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    • Stella Artois
    • Ter Zee
    • Theatre Jeusette
    • Zone Braams
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    • Bobsled Track
    • Hotel Sutjeska
    • Igman Olympic Jumps
    • Tjentište Monument
  • Bulgaria
    • Aircraft Graveyard
    • Buzludzha
    • Kino -Theatre
    • PIR School
  • Cambodia
    • Black Palace
    • Bokor Hill
    • Toul Sleng S-21
  • Croatia
    • Goli Otok
    • Haludovo Palace Hotel
    • Jelsa Childrens Resort
    • Katarina Naval Base
    • Motel Plitvice
    • Motel Vartnik
    • UN Building
    • Villa Izvor
    • Zeljava Airbase
  • Czech Republic
    • Avia Truck Factory
    • Kostelec Hospital
    • Regional Insitutional Building
    • Hradčany Soviet Air Base
  • Estonia
    • Communist Statues
    • Hara Submarine Base
    • Naissaar - Bomb Island
    • Patarei Prison
    • Soviet Orpanage
    • Soviet Port
    • Tail-Fin Graveyard
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    • Coal Washing Plant
    • Grands Moulins de Paris
    • Prison H15
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      • Hohenlychen Sanatorium
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      • Forst Z
      • House of the Officers
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      • Soviet Military Prison Block
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    • Irbene Radioteleskops
    • MIG in a field
    • Karosta
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    • Liva Sanatorium
    • Skrunda-1
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    • Centrale Thermique
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    • Borne Sulinowo
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    • Manor House
    • Sokołowsko Sanatorium
    • Wola Gasworks
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    • MiG in another Field
    • Kudrinskaya ploshchad
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    • Pioneer Camp
    • Soviet Summer Camp
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  Past Remnants

Normansfield

In 1868 John Langdon Down set up his own private home for the "Mentally Subnormal" at Normansfield in Kingston to supply a need for residential training and care for the disabled of the upper classes. Langdon Down identified a specific group of patients whose oriental characteristics he described as Mongolian in character. Nobody had identified this special group and over the next 20 years the designation "Mongolian Idiot" or ‘Imbecile of the Mongoloid type’ came into use.

Langdon Down died on October 7th 1896. Mary Langdon Down died in 1901 their ashes were placed together on the stage of the adjoining theatre for their final funeral service.

The theatre, which they built, is today a listed building and has been fully restored by The Langdon Down Trust.  Normansfield was closed in 1997; the main hospital remains and was due to be turned into a hotel, while the rest of the site was redeveloped for housing.


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