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ITS EITHER A ORGAN GRINDER OR BONE GRINDER

THATS NOT REAL BLOOD IT WOULD OF TURNED BROWN

Just think, no rent or morgage, or taxes. What a lucky guy. (I'm just kidding)

do you thinks cops would let you go if you were just taking pictures? or would they still slap you with a trespassing. Night or Day?

"Anything that could be used to cut or slash wrists was not to be encouraged. This rules a metal crapper out - and explains why the smash proof measures are in place here."--Turbozutek. How the hell can you slit your wrists on a toilet!? O_o

I notice the door is one of the older doors.
How do I know this you might ask. Notice the keyhole, it is for one of the old style skeleton keys. There were several forms for the skeleton keys. The newer doors had more contemporary style keys.

I'd rather be able to see my patients thorugh a window than either
A: keep opening the door to check on them every two minutes and disturb their bathing time, or
B: Stand fretting that they were drowning

Get a grip girl!

xtiml, what on earth???

On a totally seperate topic, and back to the photograph, many hospitals of this type did not have curtains on the showers and baths: It was felt that the learning disabled/ mentally ill were unable to appreciate the privacy a curtain woud have ensured. It was assumed that they could not feel shame or embarassment like other people and as such didn't need curtain. Architects designing the properties were instructed not to install them. I have also have been told it was a cost-saving measure.

RE Jon's 17-07-05 comment. I am a Mental Health Nurse and work in a large English Psychiatric Hospital and, just so you know, we ALL work tirelessly to keep it VERY clean. The cleaning team are fantastic, and work for a meagre wage to ensure that the residents have as nice an environment as possible for the duration of their stay.

LOL the creature form the black lagoon! It sounds funny but when my dad was growing up in Ireland in the 1950s he got really scared by that film when it came to the local cinema. He wouldn't go fishing for a month!
Oh well I guess the scary movies of yesterday seem funny by today's standards.
This looked like a really cool place to explore, it didn't look like that scary of a haunted house though.
Has anyone heard about that haunted house in Japan that is a walk through in the theme of a hospital? They say it's so scary people have had heart attacks walking through it. I wonder if they got any ideas from some of the hospital shots on this site. ;-)

As an artist I have to say I love both the shot and the colors on the top of the carousel. :-)

Yes it is

They might be very expensive apartments some day.

The people taking things out of the building were scrappers, not vandals. Their goal is to aquire precious metals and other objects that can be sold for cash, I imagine these beds are not worth much on the street.

It is not the same power plant, this one is quite gutted and much smaller.