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ShutterButton: When Blockley Was Batty

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A recent perusing of the University Archives led us to this picture of the Blockley Almshouse from 1920. For those of you unfamiliar with the story surrounding one of campus's newest watering holes, Blockley has been a hospital, orphanage and insane asylum, among other things. We'll drink to that?

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