4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Like Lynne, this shot really reminds me of a church. It's an incredible shot Motts, I love the light through the window!

Such bright colours in all the peeling paint..... Lynne that's a great link, thanks!

Motts I love your stairway shots.....and holy moly those windows are gorgeous. I also hope this building stays in such pristine shape, what a beauty!

Oh goodie!! Thanks Motts, I'm SO looking forward to checking these out!

Lynne darling I hope everything's okay??

Back in the old days (a few years ago) we didn't have ozone sterilizers or big budgets; we were stuck with chemical disinfectants and steam sterilizers to clean mattresses. When there was no money coming in on a regular basis and/or when you were at double the patient capacity for which you had equipment, rather than throwing everything away, as people do today, anything that could be was recycled. A mattress sterilizer was a dearly beloved commodity in hospitals, especially military hospitals, and they worked on the old-fashioned idea of using saturated steam heat to blast out the little nasty critters. Here is a reference for a saturated steam sterilizer that can be used for mattresses, clothes, etc.
http://www.prenex.com/en/autoclave.html

It IS sad - it is something that cannot be adequately described to someone who has never experienced it or lived intimately with someone who is going through it. It is one of the saddest diseases there is because we are right on the threshold of finding ways of reducing or, hopefully, eliminating it, and we know we are almost there, but not quite. The toll it has taken is unspeakable and immeasurable, so to me the horrible irony is how the disease not only alienates us from others, but how many others take such great pains to disassociate themselves from people who are going through it.

on the seal, 3 grapevines: Windsor, Wethersfield and Hartford

No prob, silkster! :0)

Fair comment Lynne, I have lived with someone who was supposed to be a gaurdian to me and they spent their working life in an asylum (as a patient at Whittingham Hospital UK Preston Lancashire) So living and breathing with a person who suffers from mental illness can make it seem sad.

Thanks for the posting these pictures lynne, i have been hoping someone would find some evenually. the first couple show how this building has lost some of it's details over the years, things we probably would never have known were there.

Lynne!! wow, great old photos. Thanks for sharing.

Bri, thanks :-) for the translation .

I don't think they are for baking bread as too much heat would escape from the opening (if im viewing this correctly)
I go with Lynne's thoughts here, but I do agree they look like incubators for chickens ... it would be interesting to know the history - if they did any sort of farming there.

that is beautiful.

Just a position, nothing perverted about that, it's just a position, now on your knees!

i still belive its a very large bread oven.or whats left of it.a place this big and old would make their own bread daily.