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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/GHW/1/4/6/10
Former ReferenceD3311/96/10
TitlePhotograph of monument at Southam, Warwickshire, commemorating the first self-supporting dispensary in the United Kingdom
Date[mid 20th cent]
DescriptionThe dispensary was founded in 1823 by Dr Smith, who also founded boys' garden allotments for early instruction in land managment, said to have been visited by Sir John Franklin and other distinguished people.
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorHenry Willingham Gell (1856-1942)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
FormatPhotographic

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Smith; Henry Lilley (1787-1859); Surgeon
Gell; Henry Willingham (1856-1942); doctor and physician
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Southam 
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