38 Comments Posted by Danny

Norwich has a past...it must have been one of the top places for the mentally ill in England.
The big one at old palace rd had padded cells and one of the scaryist places on the earth.
myself i'm glad they have shut down...
where this evil has eminated.

this looks like the hell hole they kept my sister in at the age of 15 and was abused on a regular basis...by the people who should have been caring for her.

"I want to go home! Take of this uniform and leave the show! i´ve been waiting in this cell because I Have to know! Have I been guilty all this time!" - Pink Floyd, The Wall

Or possibly...since the note seems quite new...someone got locked up on purpose for some reason....maybe you guys should chek out whats behind the locked doors....

Then of course we have the issue with the locks...they´re probably on the outside so I do not think that someone got locked up accdidentally.....it is all written by the same person....could be a multiple personality disorder....(look at the "t"s, "E"s, "h"s

i came here on 6-6-08
it wasz so scaryy there is a dead body [of an animal] on the attic

i have just checked i have roughly 128 pictures of the building and the inside i hae taken pictures of nearly every room if u would like me to send u some of the pictures or u would like to see the pictures add me on msn ( moviemaniac3110@hotmail.com) i will send u all of my pics they are worth a look.

thats a nice pic i have a few pics of the place i have beed a couple of times it is a creepy place but the acctual building is great the brickwork is amazing and the general layout of the place is great realy old decore i also found loads of files on previous patients some date back to 1942 i dont understand them u would need a key to understand most of them but interesting none the less.

dont know why everyone is goin on about a soap dispenser, or even a sink...... this is a photograph of a light with a glass shade, a smoke/fire alarm sensor and a window.................have you lot been smokin crack?

I have walked alone through this tortured place amoung the shadow people

cool gallery

thats cool.

I know what you're saying, entirely. I am very much a skeptic when it comes to most everything. I fully support all sciences, and despite the mistakes of the past, I believe that science will prevail. However, the fact is, horror stories will always be with us, and I say good. Looking at a rotting insane asylum is scary, because insanity is scary (to those that are "sane") and decay reminds of our own death. Seeing a building that was once teeming with life and is now being eaten away by mold and bacteria is a bit like seeing inside our own coffins. So people get freaked out and they imagine scary things. It doesnt mean the things they post here are true. The above pic is scary if you think of a schizophrenic making it (and only because of the terror of schizophrenia, not because they are harmful) and harmless if you think of bored kids who resent being locked up. It really doesnt matter at all. People will always believe what they want to believe, regardless of the facts. Unfortunately.

Life ends in death. Sad, i guess, but a fact. Kids die, moms die, gramma's die. Its ok. No one was making any specific comments about anyone else's dead kids.

Lynne,
I'm sure you are a good person who cares very much about the mentally and physically handicapped. It's quite obvious that you are on some type of crusade to get rid of the negative stigma surrounding mental health care, and thats good. Many people don't get the help they need because of all the negative images attached to being "crazy" so to speak. I am all for viewing things as they are. However, I was under the impression that this web site was devoted to the photography of urban decay. This is art. The above picture, whether or not it was just a joke or whatever, is still a strong image, and "the pit of oblivion" fits perfectly as a description of depression as well as a description of institutiional life, whether it be in a mental hospital or a prison. Being locked up is no fun.

Why was Mona Lisa smiling? Why did Paul McCartney write "Yesterday"? I don't nor want to know why. I make my own explanations.

When you have pictures of rotting structures in front of you, are you going to think of the helpful doctor and the smiling nurse, or the "Nurse Ratchetts" of the world? It would be like trying to have a wedding in a cemetary. Im sorry to ramble on, but I feel like Motts is trying to show some of the beauty in decay and death, and, in a way he is helping to "de-myth" these places, but everyone wants to turn it into a politcal issue. The problem is that this isnt the place. We're all just looking at some beautiful pictures.