3 Comments Posted by Sneb

Blimey! It's in English!

No, it's a tiled floor. At some point the tiles at the edges were blue whilst those in the center were red. In some of the NHS hospitals I've been in they did this to help partialy-sighted people find their way without bumping into the walls. Might just be decoration though.

I worked for NHS housekeeping for a while in the pathology department. Buckets like these were often used for larger body-parts that were to be disected (they used to soak them in preservative. Later they'd imbed the tissue in a waxy resin and slice it for examining under a microscope). There was a similar bucket (of a different colour I think) in one of the offices I cleaned. It had a leg in it that had been forgotten about ten years earlier... Because they weren't sure what to do with it the thing just sat there, under the desk, waiting for somebody brave to come along and go to the trouble of disposing of it (and also of explaining why it was still there). This was in 2004.