4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

It's also looking shorter and shorter each time I look at it, like you couldn't fit anything that size in there. I am more and more convinced that we must have been using whatever it was we used as the mattress drying "device" for a totally different purpose than it was ever intended. Sort of like finding an unused emesis basin and using it for storing jewelry because you don't have anything else to put your jewelry in, and then 20 years later someone like me says that an emesis basin is a jewelry storage device because they've seen it used that way before. 8`-)

ok ...no place is going to clean mattresses in the kitchen if this is part of the kitchen..i played with the photo in paintshop and its on the inside of an outside brick wall next to a set of windows. it maybe vented to the outside and thats why it is on that wall.

RE; Lynne 01-06-06.

Repeat, while deep breathing, "I'm a kitten, You're a kitten"

Continue until urge to strike out is decreased.

***Got the Kitten thing from a Mike Myers interview***

It's kind of cool the way the head/foot of these beds is buried in the plaster dust, almost as if they were slowly sinking.

Or an evil "nemesis pan"!

Hey! Good idea, psychadellic one! I'll run it by our HVAC guys tomorrow as well!

Well, that's not what they were MADE for, I think, it's just that these or something like them were used in that one place for mattress drying because they were "handy-dandy." I was planning on running down to our laundry today to see if any of those folks who've been here for a while might know what they were, but I ended up having to do some other things, so mebbe tomorrow. :-)

Jude, now that you mention it, it really does.
Cool

Fantastic perspective and lighting.

Ok, since i am going by what they look like, and Lynne is going on what her co-workers say, i would have to go with Lynne on them being matress dryers.

F****** Awsome shot Motts.
That's what I love about your site, your eye for capturing stunning bits of architecture that may soon be lost, and sharing them with all of us.

Thank you.

Wow, my hat of to you Mr. Motts. Norwich state is no joke. big time high tech ninja in the house!

Thanks Arasine, some people have walked into shots which end up looking like ghosts, but I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.

AutumnTwin I've been trying to get to places I haven't visited yet, or others in immediate danger of being demolished, but hopefully I will return to Gravesend soon.

Lynne, you must have posted that while i was typing my comment.