26 Comments Posted by becky

I remember walking down these corridors every day. A nurse student there from 1993 -1996 hate that it is now just a wasted space being wrecked. Part of my history.

this is such a cool shot

this is so intresting, im from sunderland about 10 mins from the asylum. me and my friend have also been inside, but not as much as you managed, love to do what you do before its knocked down.

it looks like the dirt has been freshly swept from the stair case....spooky.

I have to agree with Lynne on the whole medication thing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Someone mentioned that some fairytales weren't really meant for children. If you read the original Grimm's. most of the tales are quite dark and much scarier than their modern day versions.

I always found it ironic that Alice in Wonderland was used so much for children. Especially seeing how Lewis Carroll was rumored to have had a "strange" relationship with the young girl he wrote the story for as well as other children. The story and it's author definitely has a darker side.

Just like the children patients...you can grow up and look towards the wide open sky all you want but at the end of the day, you will still be in a cage. Very depressing.

There is so much talk of elevators that I just wanted to throw a little bit of useless information out there. The next time that you are in a hotel that has 14+ floors, notice that 9 out of 10 times there will not be a button for the 13th floor. Unsure of the reason but interesting atleast :)

It's true that used correctly, hydrotherapy can be a very therapeutic tool. However, in the early days and especially at this particular location, I'm not convinced they were used to give nice, warm, muscle-soothing baths. Somehow, there is pain in this picture and that object. Also, I haven't seen the infamous picture but I had an episiotomy and ya'll are right...some things should NEVER be sewn up lol

Perhaps this is a very ominous observation on my part but I can't help but speculate what these tunnels were used for. I have found that most of the time, tunnels such as these were used for the transport of bodies so that the other patients would not see the dead. Regardless of their use, they give off a very "dead feeling" to me. Sad.

Sometimes a room such as this is all you can do. Sometimes the darkness has crept so far into your small mind that no amount of therapy or medications could ever change that. Whether in this room or in their own minds, some of children, including myself, are prisoners of their own minds for the rest of our lives.

I have to admit Mr. Motts I'm not too concerned about the soap dispensers :) Wonderful picture. Perhaps someone once believed if they scrubbed hard enough, they could wash away the maddening loneliness.

As soon as I looked at this picture I felt and overwhelming sense of "this is it". This sight seems to say "This is your home now...always has been...always will be". Heartbreaking. On a lighter note however, I have seem numerous posts by "AO" and I would just like to say that whoever you are, we seem to be very like-minded. Like me you look at a picture and see more than decaying furniture and pretty lighting. I am only 20 years young but I also try to see the forest and not just the trees :)

Forgive my comments Mr. Motts for as I read through the previous ones I find that mine are a tad on the darker, deeper side. There are lost souls in those rooms. Terrified of the voices in their heads and the images their brains made them believe they saw. I really believe those patients will be there forever. Not so much as ghosts but as one of time's many memories. Souls with eyes that stare out of those cell doors aching for something or someone to simply make it all stop and souls whose minds had deteriorated so much that their minds were no longer their own. Painfully beautiful.