FEW visitors to the Imperial War Museum, just a short walk from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Lambeth headquarters, are aware that it occupies a building that was once a lunatic asylum. And the grassy park that surrounds the museum was once the asylum's extensive and secure grounds where inmates exercised. The institution in question was the famous Bethlem Royal Hospital, otherwise known as Bedlam, which occupied the site for well over a century.
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