1,162 Comments for Cherry Knowle Hospital

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Please forgive me for giving a window personality, but it feels like the glass is standing in direct defiance to the chair and the graffitti.
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It's so wonderful to see woodworking that has survived. Unfortunately, it always seems to be the first to go. Work like this should be preserved and cherished, unfortunately the craft is slowly being abandoned as well.
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Like I thought English Oak. I bet if you attacked that thing with a "Pledge" can instead of a spray paint can, she would gleam like the day she was built!
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That's English Oak for ya! Everything around it is falling apart, including the inards. But the wood remains timeless. The freize work between the spires is beautiful.
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It's amazing how time and neglect have not touched the paint. Like somehow the plaque of disrepair and abandonment cannot touch this one pure thing.
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I'm sorry, but i would feel seriously guilty for grafitting a church or chapel! Especially in a mental institution!
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Is that artificial brickwork on the window wall? Or original construction covered up by tacky wallpaper and paint?
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Wonderful shot! You walk up the stairs back when everything was new and then one more step brings you to the decay...like one of those time elapsed scenes where you actually watch the transformation from new to old.
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LOL! Good Morning, I'm Nurse Ratchett and I'll be your hostess today!
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I've been lurking or haunting this board for about a year now, and that is one thing I've noticed. Almost everytime, the exterior walls always seem to be in the worst shape. They didn't have Anderson windows back then, so drafts moisture, leaks and broken windows are probably the culprit.
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Is the blue peeling to reveal the green or is the green peeling to reveal the blue?
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The black bubbling yellow paint looks like ginormous huge ants!
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Oh, thank god! I was starting to go through withdrawl!
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StareGirl, the machine they used on me sent very small currents , kinda tingly, to my wrist to treat carpal tunnel.
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that chair is just used for weighing people even if you can walk cause they still have them nowadays as i used one