444 Comments for St Ebba's Hospital

hmmmn.. in modern hospitals you quite often find that out of hours in the A&E the toilets are locked except for the ones closest to the waiting area. I once asked and got a whole load of reasons from "to give the junkies fewer places to hide" to "so the nightstaff have fewer places to keep an eye one" and things like that.

so maybe this toilet was locked at night or our of hours for whatever reason, and the huge deadbolt was put on as a visual indicator that the room's out of use [to prevent somone waiting patiently for hours for the non-existant occupant to finish!]

yep, looks like an old evaporating unit. We use something vaugely similar in the lab i work at.

the coils heat up the flask and the liquid boils. you have one entry to insert the liquid, and a smaller entry that you can use to let out the steam. possibly the arms make it so tha tyou can rotate the flask/heating coils so they're not concentrating on just one part of the bottle.

maybe to purify liquids - we use them to boil down a tincture into a syrup. you can be amazingly accurate with how thick you make the mixture.

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Our building regulations aren't so different that we put bolts on the wrong side of doors! The bolt does appear to have been there longer than the Toilets sign. Maybe a previous explorer found it and stuck it on the door?

I've neve seen this either. I wonder if building codes are different in the UK. I wonder if there was a lock on the inside.

Ohhh,Singer!
XD My,God I knew that name was familiar!
The president of the Singer Corp. Frederick Gilbert Bourne, had a Castle built on the St.Lawrence River,about a 30 min. drive from where I live;they've been renovating the castle for some time now and it's open to the public,but God a part of me wishes they'd just leave it alone XD It was amazing to go through it.

Good job, Motts. Thank you!

Excellent photography.

Motts, did you look inside? Was it still a toilet? Maybe it was converted to some other use that required a deadbolt.

Probably shouldn't have looked at this while eating lunch, huh?

Those windings do look like an electric heater element, so it may be the pressure vessel of a still.

Oddly enough, I find this shot very disorienting, but I can't help but keep staring at it. Really lovely. Of course, as always, I am a sucker for your black and whites.

ewwww! how creepy...

Thanks Mr.Motts for the close up! I sew and both of my machines are by Singer. Poor little rusty (and abandoned) sewing machine...

Awesome!!!!!!! I didn't think they made those sewing machines that small, or is it the picture?