Marked with ‘Leicester Borough Asylum,’ this piece once belonged to a psychiatric hospital that operated from 1869 till 1939, later known as The Towers Hospital.

The Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum, later known as the Leicester City Mental Hospital and then Towers Hospital, was a mental health facility in Humberstone, Leicestershire, England, that opened in September 1869 and closed in 2013.

It was designed by Edward Loney Stephens, to provide care for people with  mental health conditions, using a corridor layout with compact arrow  additions.

The hospital later became the Leicester City Mental Hospital in the 1920s  and then joined the National Health Service as the Towers Hospital in  1948.

The asylum was designed to hold 274 patients, but later expanded to hold 1,200 patients.

It remained open for 144 years, covering two world wars and evolving scientific understanding of mental health. The last patient left in 2000.