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I worked in the lab - around 1970 as a lab tech, doing routine stuff, drawing blood, CBCs, Urinalysis, Sugar, etc
Is this N10, I can picture the bldg, but can't remember the #

tears coming to my eyes, i used to have one of those exactly like it as a kid. the yellow hump would push down to create a fun realistic air driven "toot". unlike the bs the kids have today that come out of china with a chip inside that plays an mp3.

stunning gallery, wish i had the time and youth to do UE

when I first started visiting this site, I thought the comments were ...ummm...well, frankly they came across as craven boot-licking. However, I do find it interesting how the images (which are very well done indeed) effect people in so many diffirent ways. Some see beauty, some see sadness, some are creeped out and others just enjoy something that few people will ever see. I have grown a new appreciation for the varied comments (though the "sycophants" can still be a bit much).
Anywho, thanks for sharing some great work Mr. Motts.

I worked there in that time period, maybe a year or 2 earlier, as a lab tech. I think the lab was in N10, don't remember, but that bldg sticks in my mind. I do remember taking blood in the day room and carrying a huge set of keys, for the elevator, etc.. Most of the tests were to monitor drug levels. The patients were pretty heavily medicated. I'm also interested in reading whatever you have.
The pictures are great!

Puddleboy you are right...the train in the picture is from the late 70's/early 80's...the ones in the link Lynne posted are 90's (and thanks for that Lynne...very cool website!). My kids had both the 80's and the 90's versions. We found the 80's version at a yard sale when my youngest son was obsessed with trains. The train in this pic has a yellow "knob" on top that when pushed makes a train whistle noise...the newer version doesn't.

Love this site...and reading all of your comments! It's my favorite thing to do at work ...looking at Mott's cool pics and hoping I don't get caught. My boss is at a meeting so I'm safe for now. ;-)

Lynne, that sounds very interesting, I especially love looking at old adverts...if you have everything together and you remember, I'd love if you could send it to me as well at jdfan63@hotmail.com I'm taking a Psych class next semester and this might supplement it well.

Lynne, thank you so much. My email address is ccouch@shallowaterisd.net. Please write hospital on the subject line. Thanks so much.
Cindy

It's also looking shorter and shorter each time I look at it, like you couldn't fit anything that size in there. I am more and more convinced that we must have been using whatever it was we used as the mattress drying "device" for a totally different purpose than it was ever intended. Sort of like finding an unused emesis basin and using it for storing jewelry because you don't have anything else to put your jewelry in, and then 20 years later someone like me says that an emesis basin is a jewelry storage device because they've seen it used that way before. 8`-)

they boarded up all the old ways in after the fire. just a hint, that fire opened up new ways in...

andrew, send me an email to hedonisticvanity at gmail.com i can show you around, im a local. letchworth is my stomping ground. im there typically once a week. i know it like the back of my hand. i have blueprints of the whole compound

LOL no I really, really, really doubted there was a connection, but I was just about to say I knew someone that actually had the Pete Moss xD

I'd never go there at night......shame they are all gone now :(

probably a little "common sense" goes a long way to sensing how dangerous these rotton buildings really are?

hello barbara
peat moss is a nickname i earned at a workplace in maine
would you have a connection there?