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44 Ibid., p. 108.

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81 Mitchell and Hawker designed the Winton Public Library, Bournemouth (c. 1907).

82 At http://www.orleyfarm.harrow.sch.uk/history (accessed on 10 December 2009). Edward Hastings, who founded Orley Farm School in 1850 (then known as Hastings), ‘purchased an additional house “Julians’” (i.e. Julian’s Way (c. 1905) was built on the site of this earlier house). Unbeknown to him, this property previously belonged to the family of Anthony Trollope, and when that author faithfully described it in his famous novel of 1862, Orley Farm, Hastings recognized the description and sought — and gained — the author’s permission to change the name of his school to ‘Orley Farm’.

83 Listed building 202109 at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=202109&mode=adv (accessed on 24 April 2009).

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89 Ibid.

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100 Ibid.

101 Ibid.

102 Listed building 204898 at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=204898&mode=adv (accessed on 18 July 2010). The hospital was formerly the Merchant Seaman’s Orphan Asylum; Mitchell was surveyor to the Orphanage from 1898–1913.

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