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Looks more menacing in B & W.
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QUE GUAPADA
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I dreamt of places like that in nightmares of course.I am afraid of stairs that you don't see what is going down,jejjejejje
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Is that graffitti I see? Look to the right of the second doorway.
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The look like mail pidgeon holes to me.
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Howie,
Anyone that worked there in the 80-82 timeframe has to remember Rock. He was an OK guy - if you were a friend, he was there for you. But most knew not to get on his bad side.........
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Looks like the vestry door...where's the vicar?
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The perspective here is awesome. The height of the ceiling vs the narrowness of the hall. Makes you dizzy. Looks like where they'd stash the staff, really. We always get the arse end of the building and offices the size of the john.
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What a magnificent name for an asylum. Gravesend. Almost as good as Hellingsley Asylum. Wouldn't you think someone would have a wee think about that before they hung the shingle out? Bless them...
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actually, I'm struck by the modernity (did I just make up a word?) of the chair and the intact paint job on the walls.
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If it was the nurse unit managers office the stains on the wall were probably from spitting at the administrator after he/she left the room...
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Somehow I get a clear image of that door slamming shut after you if you were a poor nurse on night shift. Always waiting for it to happen, but it never does... I really should become a florist...
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Who had the contract for this place? The local high school? Well, I never...
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Given the institution, I would assume that suction would be kept at hand for those with cerebral palsy or muscular distrophy or having an epileptic seizure. It's used to suck saliva and vomitus from the mouth if the client is indisposed.
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Well said, nevermore. Well said. I too would like to see the nose back on the hanging garden of babylon and I think it's a crying shame so much brilliant design work is going under the wrecking ball in the uk and the usa. We here have nothing of historical value except the laws of our parliament, therefore nothing worth salvaging really.