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still standing...

Pat Ratchet- what goes with Bennett school- what website can i visit to see what the village is planning

Thank you, Mr. Motts. Thank you for preserving Eden Hall in pictures, even in its dilapidated state. I would have loved to have seen Eden Hall when it still functioned as a school and this beautiful chapel was still a House of God.

Thanks to many highly publisised and mainly negitive investigations into the running of the old "asylum" style hospitals and the subsequent "community care" programmes, all of the good work that took place in these hospitals has been forgotten. They often provided the only home that some of the residents had ever experienced. More often that not the care given was the best the nurses could provide given the lack input mental health services get. Unfortunately there were a lot of people detained in hospitals (somestimes for things like disobeying parents or having children out of wedlock) who didn't need to be there, but there were also just as many people who did need the security and acceptance that came with these facilities. I live near an abandoned victorian institution in England. The grounds are beautiful and tranquil and the perfect place to retreat from the stigma and cruelty of the world. There is a church and graveyard on the grounds which has a section for the "community patients" - being the people who died following discharge to the community and had no family. The number of suicides in the area also increased following the discharges as a result of closure. I find that incredibly telling - these hospitals had a place. Maybe on a smaller scale and monitored more closely to protect the patients, but still necessary.

BTW - these photo's are amongst the most beautiful I have seen. I have spent hours looking at them, and reading the discussions. I just find it sad that people are so facinated and excited by the idea of mistreatment and degradation of the poor souls who lived here.

V V, it was after reading your book that brought me to this site.

Next to the empty altar, this is the saddest shot of them all.

A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.

Martha, how fortunate you were to have been able to go there.

To demolish such beauty is a sin indeed.

Out of sight, out of mind; the Society of the Sacred Heart perhaps wanted to forget what they once were.

We could use Catholic boarding schools like this again.

damn! i would have bought one! i dragged a wheelchair all over PCH trying to find the right lighting for a "session 9" shot and it still didn't come out good! lol

Epic Fail?? Maybe but its still disturbing and creepy. I like it!! XD

lol why are all the houses like blue?

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great fing, this should be in a museum, I've never in my life seen or even heard of wooden cabnits for the bodies; and an airconditioner?!

Have you ever gotten into one of those things, Motts?

Yay, soap dispensers!

I wonder what the pictures were on the wall to the right?