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Neat looking building.

Yes awesome shots.
I too lived near whittingham and used to cycle through the grounds and play cricket there!

Bry its a joke , check out the link in the comments....

Thank you! Fab photos! I felt like I was being drawn in and the building was speaking to me.

keith i think you are right..i work in a place like this one and as a staff i try to give each child the best care and alot of the staff i work with are the same way...most children do not know anything different...no we don't live there 24 7, but i work with a lot of caring people...not to mention at times some of these places are the best place for children...i work with a lot of behavior children and we are trained on how to deal with that..sure times have changed and we are more understanding of laws, right, respect..in just 10 years of working in the human service feild i have seen the changes..and yes any empty building left for years will look this way i'm sure..

this is paul dever school located in taunton ma...i have been there and i don't live far from there..

This also appears in 'From Potters End' a forensic pathology book by Patricia Cornwell in which she says it is on the wall in a morgue. amazing quote. love it.

did you see the man in the picture?yes there is a man!!!

i belive in that

Cool! A noobie!!! ;-)

Ugly sink, nasty room.

What is the deal with all the whining about the soap dispensers? DId you ever think they could have used bars of soap, most likely they did. The bar of soap is now gone, period.

This is maddening! A gargantuan mausoleum of Gothic beauty, and shrine to the better treatment of the mentally ill, torn down--to make way for trendy apartments! That is stupidity and GREED at its finest. Why didn't those corporate clowns RENOVATE ALL OF THE RUINS? More money for them! Maybe they couldn't find that many avante-gard to live there? This historical beauty should have been protected and saved! If even by sanction from a higher authority. (Happy Birthday, Dear President....) The haunting beauty of the place can never be surplanted or duplicated. Kind'a like a National Forest. Living in one of those stately apartments would be interesting, indeed. Especially with all those poor, dead, miserable souls wandering about. I wouldn't want to be so up close and personal--akin--to those former occupants. I'm afraid I would have a tendency to wake up screaming in the middle of the night, and slobbering into my pillow!

Jason-
My mom and aunt went into the hospital with their two dorky friends at night!!!! It was so creapy. They went up to the celing with only a flashlight. The two friends had a blue print and there were tunnels under the ground. My mom is so protective it freaked me out when she told me what she did. Jason don't do it. YOu'll get caught like everyone else. They got caught by a preacher and of course the cops.

Someone has to defend the place, I was in the Children's Unit in 68/69, and had a wonderful time there! (Much better than my home life!) The counselors, and teachers were most caring, compassionate, and helpful to me. Obviously this changed after I
left. I just wrote my memoirs of my time there
for my family archives, and had nothing but
good things to say! It was a profound education, and helped make me who I am today, forty years later. I am saddened by what
has happened to the staff, and facilities, but I have my pleasent memories! (And no, I wasn't psychotic, nor ever on medication, so
we can't blame that for my "happy memories"!

Yeah, this kind of reminds me of the bathtub from Saw! (Minus the luft of course)