206 Comments Posted by Kadee

The boards on the windows are painted black with shades painted on them, to look like the window isn't boarded up.

How fantastically different. Loved this gallery thanks so much Motts!!!!

I love the brightness of this pic, the greens and yellows are like sunshine in what should be a dreary place.

Really does bring sadness to see some thing that was meant to bring prestige even in death so deteriorated and forgotten. So I gotta agree with Tony and Sian, eventually your not even a memory anymore- ah how sad.

I love the dusty cobwebs hanging from the coffin, very fitting.

The lighting in this one is spectacular, WOW

Those doors are absolutely gorgeous, love the height and the arch on them.

Well then it's to bad you can't see the beauty in it too Rebecca.
I would hate to go through life seeing only the black and white without seeing whats in the gray areas too. If looking at beauty in EVERYTHING is being disturbed then I'm happy to be that way.

Felyn, we would just say " I went to public school "
State school is something completely different here in the US ( well at least in my part of the US )

I would have asked for a ride : )

As an innocent bystander- not in the medical pro. - just a big fan of the site. I have read almost every post good and bad in the arguement of the torture and poor treatment in these places, from a laymans standpoint here is my opinion.

Long before asylums and hospitals came to be, "strange" and "unusual" practices took place in the name of medical science , without these "torturous" or "odd experiments" how could the medical field have become so helpfull???? So it just stands to reason that of course the practices would continue when doctors began looking into the function of the mind. It is just the way humans learn- trial and error- we learn from our mistakes -thats just the way it is. What we think at one time is the way things should be done, may turn out to be wrong but from that we learn that the right way . It is the learning process plain and simple.
So Lynne you are 100% right in your last post, you just say it very eloquently and passionately, but you are right!!!
I am so tired of reading "people were tortured here" "people were mistreated here". It gets old, of course the bad is sensationalized, but what about all the good that has happened in the name of medical science, you hardly ever hear of that.

Sorry for the rant, and it may be a little out of place here, but I had to say my peace on the subject. I have a child with a life long medical ailment and if the medical world needs to do some sort of experiments to find a cure then so be it, I would like to see my child healthy and well someday by whatever means necessary, and I hold that opinion to the practices they used in the treatment of the mentaly ill then and now. There needs to be a way to make people better, and without experiment we can't learn, I bleieve it is as simple as that. Like Lynne says over and over what was practiced then, seems bad now, and what is practiced now will seem bad in the future. But the medical field will have advanced ( like it is always does through experimentation) and thats a good thing.

Okay now I'm really done with my rant *phew*

WOW, what a difference. thanks for posting that link lillimouse. I love to see before and after and in this case I can hardly even believe its the same place.

Another great gallery. Thank you so much Motts for bringing these places to us through your eyes.

Wallpaper please????? Beautiful shot.

The beams are so gorgeous. I can picture this room renovated, it is beautiful