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yeah, over this year I did a huge research project on these kinds of schools (primarily the Fernald State School), so lucky for me I got to interview both Fred Boyce and Michael D'Antonio (plus a few more.)
Talking to Fred Boyce is really depressing. Most of the people I talked to that were directly involved with the school wanted to forget what happened and never talk about it. But after he was let go from the school, Mr. Boyce spent his entire life trying to tell the world what happened to stop it from repeating its mistakes. Even when he was in the school, his goal was to shut down the institution forever. When he joined the science club (a group of children that were fed radioactive oatmeal for experimentation purposes. They did not know there was radiation in their food.) he believed that he was going to show the researchers how bad Fernald was so they could save him and all the other children. Not the case.
Two days after we interviewed him, I recieved a phone call saying that he had been moved to the hospital because his cancer was getting much worse. Now, I don't even know that he is still alive.

looks sorta planet of the apes..?

ho, ho, ho... iguess it takes a certain frame
of reference to find this picture hilarious.
stuff like this ALWAYS snuck through the culture of the late 70's, kids were allowed to use their imagination back then. mom and dad actually didn't intefere with ther kids' fantasy lives as much. usually batshit crazy stuff like this doesn't survive this long!

For me, its interesting to see the way these old hospitals were. I have always loved the mystery of them and what really went on in them. I watched a movie called the Snake Pit it is an old black and white movie but I think it told a very true story. Most people in them were ill but some were just homeless. When a baby was born back in those days with any kind of abnormality the Dr's told the familes to put them in an in a hospital because they were ashamed of the "not normal" child

i would've loved tp play a tacky joint like this....bad lounge heaven. i would have to wear a polyester shirt with lapels the size of pizza slices...

this bar seems to have a scorcese /
bada bing vibe going on

what a wonderful place to get weird!

It was pretty freaky, Jan!! But fun.

Hmm, well, I guess I wouldn't really call Byberry beautiful. Atleast, not in the sense that I would say many of the Victorian assylums were. It certainly has its own charm, but in a far more stark, sterile, utilitarian kind of way.

earlswood would have been a blinder too, i went there in 97\98 to an auction and it was well grim, it had its own full operating theatres and eveything, they turned it into 400,000 pound flats with a big centeral swimming pool and called royal earslwood park as oppossed to royal earlswood mental hospital. i wonder if the tenants of today now the history, quite weird to live in old asylum......

What the Hell was that all about????? Too freaky for me and it takes alot to freak me out!!!!!!!

a skull? with skin and hair, come on.....

im going there tonight im scared

uggggggggggggg let me at them!!!!!!!