469 Comments for Harperbury Hospital

Cool shot, Motts!

That green paint seems to have been popular in that era... all the rooms in my house are painted in that green under all the paint layers accumulated over the years.

Gotta mix it up every now and then!

Alex: well no this isn't the first padded room I've come across. I jumped ahead in my sequence of photos to get to my Europe trip online. There is a room at one of the locations on the main page with a large padded room; it had a thick rubber material on all four walls. I guess you could call it an actual "rubber room."

They are pretty rare to come by though in my experience... I only know of about 4 of these types of rooms. Sound proof and / or stain proof seclusion rooms seem to be a more popular solution. Then again, many of the pads in these types of rooms are held up by Velcro or a similar temporary method, so they might have been removed and an explorer would never know. I think I remember this hospital having another set of these green pads laying around outside, and I've seen a dismantled padded wall at another hospital in the states.

The blue one was a little tight around the waist... :-)

Sadly, this resembles the inside of my house (built circa 1919).

Pressed it a few times, nothing happened. Maybe it was because I wasn't panicking....

Regarding the speaker, I think they played horrible noises & music (Perry Como) to torture the poor soul in the room and they took turns looking at them in the mirror. Am I right Lynne? 8-)

Crap! The gay parade strikes again!

Happy times! yay!

You guys are silly!!! j/k lol! Fantastic tho!

I think its Fleur De Leis!

The angle threw me off, I didnt know whether I was looking at it upside down or sidways, this way, that way, it confused me, but then I got it!

The cradle on the faucet is where you would place the shower head. The kind that is removeable from the wall and connected with a tube or hose.

It looks like there were a bunch of scribbles under the paint.

Thanks! Too cool.