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'Chinese Gallery', 1835. The Chinese gallery in Highlands private asylum at Ticehurst, offered invalids a secure retreat in wet weather. Opened by Samuel Newington in 1792 and later developed and continued by his sons Charles and Jesse. From "The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex, Volume the First", by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. [Baxter, Sussex Press, Lewes; Messrs. Nichols and Son, London, (1835)] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)