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why does the paint always, in other pictures as well, always seem to peel off, might it be the damp?
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i live in the wrong country - we have NOTHING like that here....
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and can i just say why would a modern hosptial that closed 1995, have signs saying no way out!!!!!!

NO YOUR TRAPPED!!!!!! you dont see that in glan clwyd abblet unit!!!!!

it is a old mental hospital ............... not a prison or AUSWTIZ!!!!!!!
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excellent
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i just wonder how they made this shit actually work . its sooo intriguing
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Beautiful!
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WOW:O
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The mask look scary. What the hell it doing there?
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can you expolore the buildings
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My dad worked there when he was a teenager, his parents and brother worked there also. My dad had the honor of showing the "craziest" patients out of their room and show them movies. He has lots of memories of the place like accidently smashing a baby grand piano in the basement. There was a major infestation of earwigs in there that he had to clean up. Theres lots of interesting stories about the place like the procedures that they did
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This building was not for the criminally insane. In the 1950's alcoholics were kept "incarcerated" there for 90 days to "dry out." I know because I visited someone in 1954 and the conditions were worse than you could imagine.
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My biggest question now is, where are all these people living now that would otherwise be instatutionalized? Are they in prisons or on the street? I know that there are some resident-type organizations that house people who have mental or other issues in a home like setting (my sister works in one) but they certainly don't house the hundreds or thousands that these hospitals did. So where are all these people going today? It's too bad that they didn't have the knowledge we have now, back then. It may have done some good. PS- THANK YOU for sharing this with us Mr. Motts!
Ephemera: A Peaceful War On Mental Institutions via NPR
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Because it's an interactive piece that lets you flip the pages.
Ephemera: Dead Rollers
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i was in thair just recently what a shame history should be presurved not torn down it sadens me that thair going to tair down a peace of millbrooks history
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The original LIFE article is here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgb...x/lobotomist/bedlam/
Ephemera: A Peaceful War On Mental Institutions via NPR