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I lived down the road from this school growing up. My grandfather always wanted to buy it and fix it up. Does anyone know if it was ever sold at auction? Beautiful artchitecture though I would love to see what it looked like in the beginning. If anyone has pictures I'd appreciate it if you could send me some. ctpie488@aim.com Thank You

Good eye Tom! Yes, that is a nuclear shelter sign; I would imagine that due to its construction style (heavy, reinforced concrete and brick) that this would make a perfect fallout shelter, and probably had supplies at one point in the basement for just such an emergency...

Andrew has the right of it. It's on the floor right under the "cement couch" in N-9.
Happy hunting MJ.

dont give motts ideas for a book. we dont want to lose him.

I love the cieling

The London Psychiatric Hospital of Ontario Canada, which was built after the old Kirkbride called The London Insane Asylum was demolished, has a museum in the basement with artifacts from the old asylum which includes a very similar model/map thingy.

Is that a nuklear sign on the pillar?

were they labled with names?

Neal, My family lived at Pilgrim on "The Circle" from 1948 -55. I am the youngest of three kids with two older brothers. Perhaps we played soccer, red rover, or statues in the Circle together on summer evenings before our mothers called us in for supper. Hide and seek in the "garbage bushes " near the garages was also popular.

I am still in close touch with my "best friend" Susan from Pilgrim. It may have been her TV you remember as I also remember assembling there in the afternoons.

We were probably also together at the bus stop every school morning waiting for the yellow bus to take us to Brentwood public school.

I, too, remember my "state hospital" days very fondly.Pilgrim was the third of the five at which we lived .Although difficult for outsiders to understand, life for the patients who were chronically ill, delusional at times, but not agitated, was a great deal more pleasant, safer, and much less threatening than conditions for the mentally ill are today where prisons, squalid nursing homes, and the streets have replaced the chronic care facilities.

With all the different types of chairs in this shot, Maybe Motts caught the tail end of a "lonley chair singles mixer" All the chairs got drunk and are passed out laying on the floor!

Memories ... I had an old clawfoot tub in my house in California. I loved it! But I loved my sweetheart more, now I bathe in a "modern" fiberglass tub.

was anything inside any of them?

it look just like every thing else in that place old and brokin lol but its a cool ass pic

the 2nd floor.. my friends been up there! omgosh.. they told mee that they climbed up there! oh mann.. >__<

For some reason, this photo gives me the creeps...