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Normansfield Hospital, Teddington, Middlesex, 12th February 1979. The hospital was founded by British doctor John Langdon Down in 1868, for patients with learning disabilities. It was closed in 1997 and is now known as the Langdon Down Centre. It is the headquarters of the Down's Syndrome Association. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Hulton

Normansfield Hospital, Teddington, Middlesex, 12th February 1979. The hospital was founded by British doctor John Langdon Down in 1868, for patients with learning disabilities. It was closed in 1997 and is now known as the Langdon Down Centre. It is the headquarters of the Down's Syndrome Association. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Hulton