67 Comments Posted by owen

Definitely looks like a much nicer canteen than the one for civilian patients in another block- it's got daylight, for one thing.
Doesn't seem like it'd take too much effort to get it cleaned up and running again.

Nice peaceful shot to end on- a visual 'Last Post' to the final days of a military hospital.

I think the 'ghost' is either a cobweb or light interference.
Be interested to know what the books were- look to me like old telephone directories, or manuals of some sort.

A collector's piece, if ever I saw one....Bet it'd still work, too.

How old would those cans be? Late '40s, maybe?

Was that done by patients or by vandals? The latter, I suspect- stupid, pointless damn thing to do.

I don't think it was a real office, I'd say it was an old dorm that was later converted into a patient's activity room, with the different sections' names painted on the divider walls.

What are those perculiar metal frames for? Obviously not bedframes, and the wrong shape to be screens....

I see the face as well; uncanny.

At least the vandals seem to have left the murals alone- maybe if they were graffiti artists, they respected mural art, albeit of a different genre. Getting the patients to depict their daily lives via such a shared kind of creativity, for all to see, seems like quite a progressive idea back then- for a public institution, anyway.
The furniture doesn't even look smashed, just toppled over- it may not have been kids up to no good, perhaps some furniture was badly stacked and toppled over in a draught or something.

I found a tail once near my back gate- I think it came from a baby squirrel.

Aaahhhhh...Bless the little fellow! You could write a children's adventure story about a colony of raccoons or squirrels or something who lived in a disused building complex- maybe not a mental hospital, granted, but perhaps a school or a cinema.

What a ghastly shower system- glad we've never had things like that here in Britain.

Who's the female figure meant to be? Mary Poppins??

Poor little trike- hope that some toy collector restores it one day...