key

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Identification note: The donor's father, John Kennedy, was a hospital maintenance engineer, and he bought the key home after the hospital closed in 1995.

Summary: 19th century large metal key to the main gate of Roundway Psychiatric Hosptial, Devizes. Otherwise known as Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum, which opened in 1851.


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