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This photograph shows the senior male staff, probably sat in front of the offices to the south of the complex, adjacent to Blocks 3 and 4.
Although the photograph is dated 1885, this is not in a contemporary hand, and it may well date from 1886 instead. It is almost certainly a retirement photograph for Dr William Orange, Broadmoor's second Medical Superintendent and the man at its centre.
Most of the group is made up of the male attendants, including Chief Attendant Samuel Rawson who is wearing the banded cap in the middle row. The attendants dressed in padded jackets, or those with hidden buttons, are the men who worked in the 'back Blocks', where the more dangerous patients were housed. Credit Reading Borough Council 2014.
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