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Looks like someone swiped the front doors on these -

It looks like packed fiberglass to me, but I'm no expert so I try to assume all loose insulation contains asbestos when encountering it.

Today it is working fine, but when I first went through I would say it was the pic for the intercom plug set up.

Besides the glass missing, the doors look in great shape too. Even the hardware, knobs & locks, in them look good too.

wanderer, paintballs are often a pink, orange or yellow color, so when hit, it is easy to tell so. Most paintballers, wear jungle or urban camo to blend in & those colors stand out.

It does look like a school or a building from a military base, more for function than curb appeal.

Some of the lights are left here, which should delight our dear Mica.

This is a red cross & the title fits perfectly. wjbodin, what picture are you looking at?

Head shop and record shop. Now also gone sadly

Rowan is a tree. Many of the later names in use at this time had such names. High dependency literally means needing high levels of support to meet their needs. This may have included violence on occasions but other complexities also

This is in fact the rear of the main St Luke Division. By my time (I started working there in 1981) it was called The Lawns and was the main social centre for patients. It afforded amazing views of the surrounding countryside with rolling vistas. I imagine it was originally living quarters for an important person

Wow. I must have walked past that old picture so many times over the years. Got a sense of a flashback looking at that photo

As of this week the old ballroom, as it was called, had only one side wall and the rear wall with a very precarious roof but that large hanging decoration was still there - literally hanging by a thread

The Chapel was RE and was still used by the local villagers into the 90s. The pillars were common throughout the main complex of St Luke - down all corridors and within wards.

The local youths used to vandalise the place but it actually became quite dangerous. The police used the buildings to train their search dogs. The sign was likely to just deter the locals for their own safety. There was little of value by this time.