4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

This is an airy hallway shot and the peeling paint really adds to that initial feeling. I still fail to see the face people have mentioned earlier, though... :P

Oh, wow! They just don't make fans like that anymore! I wonder what the make and model of it is?

Nice shot... :)

A very deep shot, easily my favorite picture in this gallery... very empty yet full of meaning.

It looks creepy now, but back then it must've looked quite nice back in the day, I imagine. It's a shame the children didn't receive the same level of care that the paintings did when they were being composed...

Ooooo... that just gives me the heebie jeebies...!

I can just see someone sitting in that chair, looking up at the window... What a strange and solemn shot.

My first primary school (Ludworth School, Marple Bridge 1982-6) had something like this, but the cards just had a single work written on them.

It took me ages to work out how they worked, eventually a manetic strip came to mind.

The toy on the right is a Fisher Price Activity centre.

I think me, my brother & sister & a cousin all had the same one over the years.

It was an earler looking one.

Can't remember the model but I recovered a typewriter from the college I was at 1996-8. It would have otherwise gone in a skip.

It was a daisywheel unit that worked OK apart from the left hand margin kept jumping around & I didn't have any instructions to help me. It was handy for typing labels that are a pain to do on computers unless you're lucky,

I went when I was clearing out my room as I needed the space.

Another thing the closed British hospitals have a lot of are dial phones, I don't know if Motts has found any.

I remember when I was young I went with my Mum to Manchester Airport to pick my Dad & spotted some TVs like the ones mentioned by Joseph. Very small B&W screens with a fuzzy picture.

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For some reason it looks to me like a crematorium; kind of ironic. Wonder if they froze or burned bodies...

Pretty picture with a sad symbolism. :,(

Hey Donna! Keep checking back because occassionally we get people on here who are "authorities" on Pennhurst. I get tired of defending the place. If you have time check out the Pit of Oblivion picture and some of the bizaar comments that have been left. You'll need an aspirin if you get through them all.

Anybody wonder what happened to all our Clients? I would like to know. Not every aide that worked there was an abuser. We did care for our clients. We would bring in things from home to make their lives a little brighter. Before we got more funding I remember bringing in soap so we didn't have to wash them with the pink state soap - anyone else remember? Don't condem unless you have lived the life.