103 Comments Posted by girljaye

Hey, Joy, I think that's actually a REAL plant there on the wall. Check out the ferns growing all over this place in a lot of the photos - especially in the hallways. That is a curious little shelf up there, isn't it? I never noticed it till you pointed it out. It looks kind of utilitarian, and it doesn't match the colors of the walls at all, so it couldn't be decorative... hhhmmmm...

I wonder what happens to stuff like that altar during a renovation. Do they sell it? Reuse it as something else? Trash it? It'd be a shame if they just trashed it. You guys are right - it would be worth the time and effort to restore something like that.

Lynne, you give me a stitch in my side =)

This is actually a Tuscan order column, Yaggy... Just one of the useless tidbits of information I have floating around up there in my noggin...

Bid ED, you make me giggle

Hey, you know, whatever I can do to help ;)

You know, I've been (just for nerdy yucks on a Friday night) reading the conversation here on this board for a good part of the evening now, and I've noticed something very interesting: Those people who started out taking a stab at mental health care professionals just haven't seemed to be able to stick around to finish the conversation. Like cowards, they dart in to take a poke and then dart away with their tails between their legs before they can feel the sting of the blow that's returned. And yet the healthcare workers - you sadistic pigs, you [being facetious! not really a flame!] - hang in there steadily and continue to defend yourselves rationally with facts and opinions gleaned from hard fought experience. Now, I've never worked in the healthcare field myself - which probably makes me just as much an expert as the rest of these bleeding heart sentimentalists out there - but it seems to me that he who backs down from the fight he started lacks the artilery needed to finish it. I have news for you people - we live in a fallen world. Yucky things happen here. They happen all around us, right in our backyards, not just in state run mental hospitals. If you want to pick out some yuck to complain about, stick to subjects with which you have experience - more experience than just what you've heard 2nd hand or seen pictures of on a website, that is - and leave others who are willing to make a difference alone so they can continue to fight the good fight. Get off your high horse! You're irritating! Lynne, Marcia, Big ED - you keep on keeping on =) I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and what you do despite the odds against you. You all do or have done more for the fragile and forgotten souls of this world than these laissez faire, People Magazine reading, Doctor Phil watching couch potatoes could ever even comprehend.

*phew!* Glad I got THAT off my chest!

The soap was SO strong, it didn't just peel the paint, but it blew the whole bottom out of the dispenser on its way... THAT'S why there's no bottom on this particular soap dispenser

Hey, Long Island Irish, check out the info at this link:
http://www.whittinghamhospital.co.uk/
Motts put it up on the front page of this gallery. There's some very interesting and comprehensive info there about the hospital's history. There are also some neat pictures. I think you'll find the stories there enlightening - I did. While the hospital's past is checkered, it seems that there were a committed few who really strove to make it a pleasant place for troubled people. It's a shame that it didn't work out.

See! I'm tellin' ya! Now poor Patty is in danger of developing a severe, traumatic, red induced psychosis. Quick, Patty - slow, deep breath, think about blue... you can still save yourself!

While we're getting fanciful with poo here... I was thinking that they looked like great big, berry-eating bird poops... or like the great big, berry-eating birds flew into the wall and exploded... naaaaahhh, I like Nathan's idea better ;P

Or is it a soap dispenser...

Ahhhh! Right you are, Tony! I actually speak both Latin and Greek (because, you know there are so many high paying jobs out there for linguists in the dead language field), but that being the meaning of the writing on this particular wall didn't cross my mind - I couldn't quite make out the letters. Wonder why they chose to remodel over it? Hey, I'm bummed that your Greek font didn't transfer over to the website here.

I'll say, Tony! It's like nature kind of picked her favorite rooms in there and moved right in!

Oh, wow! Love that circular window above the doorway! Was it stained glass? I'll bet the artistry of those individual panes was breathtaking.