during the latter part of the
eighteenth century, Buxton (UK) was being promoted as a “spa town”, and a building,
designed by John Carr of York, was built to house up to 110 horses and the servants
of guests of the Crescent Hotel. Part of the building was, in 1859, converted into a
“Charity Hospital” to treat the “sick poor”, much like the Royal Mineral Water Hospital
in Bath, although this hospital concentrated on the treatment of patients from Yorkshire
and Lancashire who suffered from “Cottonopolis”. The 44.2 metre (145 ft.) diameter dome,
which was added in 1881, was, at that time, the largest unsupported dome in the world.

C U on the email, keith 