1,611 Comments for Whittingham Hospital

Hey, Long Island Irish, check out the info at this link:
http://www.whittinghamhospital.co.uk/
Motts put it up on the front page of this gallery. There's some very interesting and comprehensive info there about the hospital's history. There are also some neat pictures. I think you'll find the stories there enlightening - I did. While the hospital's past is checkered, it seems that there were a committed few who really strove to make it a pleasant place for troubled people. It's a shame that it didn't work out.

very very VERY pretty and cool; i've allways liked ferns. theres something about them...prehistoric, maybe? eeh, they're just cool....

and i agree, they should leave this grow for at LAEST 5 years, it'll be a fern palace! or a cool greenhouse

This is why I'd want other people and a base ball bat with me if I was exploring these places.
That needle could have been left over from the hospital or it could have been used by a junkie who is using the old place as his new house and wouldn't be very happy about explorers coming around.

There is that horrid shade yellow again that so many hospitals seemed to love....

This gave me chills.

I must look this up. Was there any special reason this ward had the worst repuation? For instance, what kind of patients were in here that made the staff think they could abuse them? Were they people who maybe couldn't speak well and report the abuse?

I'm not calling all staff abusive mind you (from the opening paragraph about this place the nurses in training sounded like very kind and caring people) just some.

Um, this may sound stupid but how could a hospital close for the holidays? If the patients lived there some staff had to be there surely.

Btw, fantastic shot Motts, I wonder how long that snowflake has been there.

ach, that door falling off of the wall really confuses me to which way is up!

That is so eye appealing. The red just draws my eyes to it, how unusual. I have never seen red lights frames before. Uusually they are white.

WOW! That is a shot for the books Motts.

See! I'm tellin' ya! Now poor Patty is in danger of developing a severe, traumatic, red induced psychosis. Quick, Patty - slow, deep breath, think about blue... you can still save yourself!

if you ask me, those things on the wall look like painted on (or "fake", if you will) versions of either those upward-facing light fixtures OR some kind of hang-on-the-wall vases. they might not be painted, but thats how they seem to me. i also find it interedting that, for a chapel, the room is divided in half; not only by the columns, but the celing even angles in.

thanks Mr. Motts, now i know what the triangles on the wall are!

mmm, organ's innards......

i love the structure, and what are those triangle shaped symbols on the wall?