4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Please don't make me choose either door! Great shot!

No deposit, no return!

Not a corner I want to go around! Your photography brings to mind so many things. It's wonderful and thanks for documenting these places for us to see.

These doors seem so final, like they'll have the last word or else. How solitary.

Looks like a profile to the right of that white shape above the chair!

What these people did to keep their minds intact.

Metal bedding traffic jam!

I used to go to shows here in the 1960's. My mother worked at this hospital for years. The patients would put on variety shows and here were movie nights The whole place was a city unto itself. Had its own power plant, farm, bakery, wood shops, etc. Not the best of all worlds but now the chronically mentally ill live on the streets.

Valtiel would love to get his hands on those.

Wonder what they'd do if you tried turning them.

Oh I remember sneaking into this place when I lived in Norwich. Good fun

wow, you've got to be kidding ?!

Thanks for the info! I don't recall seeing sandbags, but I'm not familiar with rigging equipment so it may have been overlooked. It also might have been salvaged.

Yes, I believe the rectangular box up top is a speaker.

The hospital was closed proper in 1996, however some of these buildings were closed for quite some time before then, I would guess sometime in the 1970s-1980s.

great pictures