9 Comments Posted by Stormsearch

Re: (BlueSkyes). "is this window boarded over? And the light is leaking in around the gaps?"

It looks to me like it is. The effect with the sunlight is quite remarkable.

Does anyone else think that's an old-style telephone on the floor in the bottom right? We used to have one of those at home.

An intriguing thing about this pool is that the water level appears not to have changed for a very very long time - the tiles above the water are perfectly clean. I've seen this pool on other Urbex sites (pictures taken several years before this one), and it's exactly the same, which is weird - the water doesn't appear to be evaporating... so how did it get to that level? Why'd they only drain half of it (if drain they did)? Especially since it would appear that the metal ladders have been taken out (I assume that, since there doesn't appear to be any form of exit from the pool on any of the photos I've seen).

Windows like that - which are wider on the inside than the outside - are quite typical of British architecture - not just a mental asylum thing. It's to do with the thickness and strength of the walls. The wider opening on the inside meant that you could have strong, thick walls yet still get maximum daylight in; if the window recess didn't widen out, the room would be a great deal darker.
You can see this kind of architecture in buildings dating from the middle ages (eg, in York, or Edinburgh).

Obviously I haven't seen the papers, but it looks to me like it says "Suicidals" rather than "Suicides". Perhaps it means that one patient was feeling suicidal, rather than that they did manage to kill themselves? That might fit in rather better with the other column being for taking precautions against escapes - having a column for tallying people who succeeded in killing themselves (presumably when the hospital was trying to prevent such action) seems a little odd to me.

The previous pictures didn't show much evidence of the edge of the mezzanine being blocked off. It looks very odd, to me, to see a balcony like this with no edging. It's almost pulling you forward into the room, thanks to the perspective.

The curve of the mezzanine is also very aesthetically pleasing.

Isn't it interesting the way the paint has peeled from the top and bottom, and left a straight line all the way along the doors? I wonder how it did that.

Deaf Angel, I know exactly what you mean. There are so many sites that just post the pics with no information. This site is definitely one of the best!

Thank you very much Motts. :)

What no-one has yet pulled Carl up on is the physics of this. It's been made clear, both in this discussion and in previous ones, that the water is very dirty and polluted, that it's very shallow, and that the silt is exceedingly dangerous. Thus, I imagine that there is a limit to the angles one can achieve in photographing these desolate wrecks. From some of the pictures, it looks like Motts was in a motorboat of some sort. I doubt it would be possible to manouever completely round each of these hulls to achieve what Carl believes is s decent shot. He seems to forget that this isn't on land, where the photographer can position his subjects to achieve the perfect shot.

For myself, I think the standard of photography is very high, especially given the subject matter, and the condition of the places Motts photographs. I agree with the others; Motts has an eye for photographing subjects that bring out an emotional response.

Lynne: So this would have been used in conjuntion with a piece of apparatus like this one Motts saw in Glenn Dale?

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