1,611 Comments for Whittingham Hospital

Yes, there's always a rush of adrenaline when I hear, see, or suspect another person to be nearby while exploring. I try to be as quiet as possible as much as I can - it's gotten me out of quite a few really tricky situations, because I saw or heard the other guy before he found me.

Motts i keep forgetting you have to be ever alert for security and cops ect,does this sense of allertness give you an addrenlene {spelt wrong i know} rush ?or are you just a real mellow person who thinks "well if i get busted i get busted"?

excellent excellent shot - makes u feel like ur some deranged patient lurking in the shadows ready to jump out on poor, unsuspecting urban explorers!

u wudnt catch me walkin down there thats far too dark and ominous for my liking! dont c the head on a rope though.

Hello there Motts. May i ask, what is it like going to these type of places. Have you ever had an unexplainable experience, such as paranormal phenomena? You'd think you'd bump into a ghost by now. :) let me know. thanks.

in the middle of the dark part of the photo it looks like someones head and shoulders is hanging from a white rope or something!!

not sure if this pic is real. I think you guys might be on that english herion (too much sauce mate)

It isnt the same hallwayy,
if you loook, the walls are different
and above the walls,
The like windows are different,

x

can you imagine what Christmas time would've been like here?

I just want to agree with one of the above commentors about why is it that we destroy these historic buildings rather than renovate them. It is such a waste.

I love this color pink. I have it in one of my upstairs rooms. And the light too...just a nice touch. Even with the decay, there is still something very touching, alive.

As has already been said, you rake snow off a roof to prevent huge chunks of it from sliding off as it partially thaws. You also rake it off (especially that heavy wet snow that decimates tree branches and power lines) when it gets more than a few inches deep so that its weight doesn't cause your roof to collapse, and to prevent leaks when it begins to melt but can't drain because ice dams have formed in the gutters.

The program called "Life after People" on the History Channel (or maybe it's National Geographic) shows some interesting computer simulations of how vegetation would overtake abandoned buildings and what the area would look like after a year, five years, 100 years, etc. The underlying premise seems a logical impossibility to me (what could happen that would exterminate all human life but leave plant and animal life essentially intact?), but that doesn't take away from the program's quality. One segment shows a return to a former town of 50,000 in the Ukraine that was completely evacuated in a period of a few hours about a day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. It is a moment frozen in time, with everything literally left just as it was--dishes on tables, scattered toys, remnants of lives left behind with no time to take more than just what one could carry. The buildings have now decayed to a point where any kind of rehabilitation is impossible, just because of weather and lack of maintenance. Because entrance has been prohibited, and because radiation is enough of a threat to keep people from trying to breach security, there is no vandalism at all.

One mother I worked with was considering placing her severely disabled child in an institution. She had other children to care for, her husband had left her because of the stress of constantly caring for a child with such overwhelming needs, she had no support from her family because the child's behavior was so unpredictable, doctors and other professionals were advising institutional placement, and assistance available to her in the community was so limited. When she went to the institution to discuss her child's admission, they showed her the swimming pool, the greenhouse, the benches and swings on the grounds, the workshops, and the cottages where the children lived. It all looked so supportive, and all the patients she saw seemed happy and busy. As she was leaving, prepared to bring her child there in a few days, one of the nurses pulled her aside and told her that what she had been shown was only applicable to a few of the residents, those with the most abilities and fewest needs. The nurse let her have a glimpse of the kind of ward where a child in her child's condition would be placed--a noisy, smelly ward with no training activities and patients in cribs all day. She kept her child at home.

This looks like the hall that was used in the film Session 9