Henshaws Blind Asylum in Manchester was conceived of over 200 years ago when Oldham hat manufacturer Thomas Henshaw donated £20,000 in his 1810 will to establish a charity to support blind people. Henshaws finally opened its doors in Old Trafford in 1837. The charity was very much a product of its Victorian times rigid, institutional and housed in a scary looking, soot black building which was to loom over Manchester until its demolition in the 1970s.
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