444 Comments for St Ebba's Hospital

this totally just reminded me... i think my Sister wore leg braces. I was very young when she wore them (she was a year and a half older than me!) But i distinctly remember her wearing them...

Fantastic photo great lighting good choice for the Sepia effect.

It's Dr. Frankenstein's soap dispenser! LMAO

Maybe they were just random decorations put up by the staff. They wouldn't really have any personal meaning then...

(Love the way these photos make you think!)

You are right, they are postcards and were framed to be hung on the wall, still odd that they were left there

Is the lady on the right wearing a Salvation Army pin badge?

Isn't this location in England...? Funny that the photo should be called 'In the Fall' and not 'In the Autumn'.

I think there could be a lot less mystery behind this picture than first meets the eye. The frame doesn't look particularly old (we had a set of 6 in our house when I was a kid....I'm 28 ;), and the fact that it's titled leads me to believe that it's simply a decorative picture postcard. My Nan has Victorian postcards all over the place. Landscapes, portraits, animals, manors...the lot. They were really cheap and prolific; chiefly from market stalls all over the UK :)

Say...Before me and my band (Birminham) get serious about recording...no i'm not gonna say, i don't want poeple stealing my ideas, i'll just tell tom so he knows that i'm not trying to monkey with his buiness. But what i'm about to do can make him rich and me rich forever. Love ya Mr.Motts xxxxx

mebe some one fell a sleep in there

According to the label, the specific gravity is (or at least once was) 1.18, which (according to standard s.g. tables for this acid) makes it very close to 35% w/w, which is very close to saturated. (You can possible read "HCl = 36.40" on the 4th line of the label, but the digits are hard to make out.) In molarity, it works out to around 11 M (that's eleven, not one point one.) So yes, this is a strong, concentrated acid and would cause serious burns if you got it on you. Having said that, hydrochloric acid of this strength can be bought in any hardware store, without any restrictions. The only difference is that this acid is analytical grade, which means it is much purer than the stuff from the hardware store.


The main reasons for strong mineral acids in a medical lab setting are controlling pH for tests that are sensitive to it, and as a calibration standard. Conc. acid like this isn't used for a calibration standard (because it would need to be diluted before use, which adds a potential source of error), so this acid was probably intended to be a handy supply of acid that could be diluted down to whatever strength was required when needed to adjust pH in tests.

Seeing it here is a side effect of environmental protection regulations. It's obviously a good thing that companies can't dump chemical wastes down the drains. But the rules are so strict that when it comes to disposing of small amounts of moderately harmful chemicals, it's such a pain in the arse to go by the book that it's easier to leave it on the shelf and hope someone else deals with it. The fact is, for a small amount like this (half a one litre bottle), it would have been harmless to dilute it 100:1 in the sink, add a pound of bicarb. of soda to neutralise, then flushing it down the drain. It certainly would be a lot better than leaving it around where some kid might end playing with it and getting burned.

Saw 6...

Some kind of space bong.

i love old pics... they kinda make u wonder tho....

OMG!! Evidence of time stopping!

Sadly most film will be gone quite soon. In many theatres they are replacing the projectors with digital versions where you download the movie through a computer. No more reels of film to be spiced together, which means my husband may have to find a new career as there won't be much call for a projectionist. =P
I think it's unbelievably sad, but hey, that's progress isn't it?