4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Wow...beautiful! It almost looks as if it were carved out of some type of jade. I love it!

My lil' brother had this whole train set, even the conductor w/his blue uniform and hat...ah, the memories!

quicksilverrider i was in the kettle building ever hear of it i was one of those kids who stole a car and cannot remember 7or more days of my life

i would really like to talk to deafangel we have something in common i was in the kettle building ever hear of it

Hi, I grew up in Norwich State Hospital. No, I was not a patient, but my father was a Doctor there in the early 80's. We lived in a house on the hospital property, right next to a building called the Bryan Building, which had been abandoned even back then. I have some GREAT memories growing up there, please post more pictures if you can. Thank You for preserving this through your pictures!

scotland - edinburgh.. formerly lahndahn.
the uk perspective bit of my post wasnt meant as a thrower.. someone up there ^ i think was writing about england which kicked me into my spiel..

More so than all the others,this place really looks like a prison from all angles,don't you agree?

I love this picture! The cool grey mosaic tile floor with the golden marble. Stunning!!

they didn't enclose the marble in mesh?

hehehehe

novocaine,

What country do you live in?

its interesting (for me, anyway) to read a UK perspective on the issue of release of clients from these institutions to be cared for by the "community" when they closed down, which the majority have. i work with the homeless through choice but my background is in behavioural psych. its incredible for me to see the amount of people with mental health problems who were originally institutionalised in places designed to cope with and assist them now totally institutionalised (and sometimes still raging) in the hostel environment. its like our health ser vice has cast people off for the voluntary sector to deal with because they just WONT assist. community care (imo) was one of the worst things our govt ever did for mental health. i have an elderly (ish) client who is schizophrenic but controlled by a cocktail and depo injections, whenever something alters in her environment she writes letters and signs them off as "shockman".. turns out she was regularly subjected to ECT in one of the hospitals that she was sectioned in.
it just enrages me at times.
i could go on for ages about this venting my various and occasionally confrontational views.. but i wont as im killing for cup of coffee!

Very claustrophobic to me -- and with the wire screen across the windows -- cool bed, though, with rollers.

It might be an intercom.

Looks like it wouldn't take much to knock one over.

What's that thing by the window?