580 Comments for Margate State School

Verry nice shot

have a seat...Lay down... Let me shock you.....

I MEANT TO SAY ......THE IMPRESSION THAT PEOPLE WERE STILL RESIDING THERE. AND they're OBVIOUSLY NOT IN THE ROOMS THAT WERE PHOTOGRAPHED

MOTTS I WOUILD LIKE TO NOW WHAT WAS GETTING BUSY OUTSIDE BECAUSE FROM YOUR HISTORY OF THE PLACE I WAS LEFT WITH THE IMPRESSION SOME WERE STILL RESIDING THERE OBVIOUSLY NOT IN THE ROOMS THAT WERE PHOTOGRAPHED.

Oh gosh these chairs. i remember hating coming in to class early morning with pants wet from the rain and sitting on these plastic chairs. they itched!

Like Captain Beefheart said while he was workin' as a travellin' hoover salesman - "sir, this machine sucks"

Those marks on the floor are from the walker itself no doubt. (rusty powder from the plating) Great shot!!

Do they come in adult size? Looks fun.

I know that if I was exploring some of the sites Motts has, and came across items like this, I would have a hard time restraining my urge to "pick up a little something" as a keepsake. Though I agree with him that the risk isn't worth it. Still it would be pretty tempting at times.

I am sure that as you said Motts, the daily schedules and such would be pretty dull reading, but what has always bothered me when looking through some of the galleries is the obvious lack of care a lot of these schools, hospitals and instituations seemed to have when it came to patient's records. There are any number of photos you have in the various galleries that show cases in which patient's medical records were just left behind when a site was closed down, seemingly without any care or concern for the privacy of those people who's histories were contained in those files.

There are a lot of people out there who don't show the restraint Motts does when it comes to "raiding" abandoned sites for souveniers, and I know I would hate to have been a former patient or family member of a patient and had to face the knowledge that my personal medical or mental health history could easily end up in the hands of someone out there who had no legal and certainly no ethical right to it.

I just don't understand how they can get away with just leaving sensitive files like that laying around. Aren't there legal and professional obligations and rules requiring these places to protect the privacy of their patients???

Looking at these photos makes me think of the sharp contrast between the institutions of yester year and "treatment center" of today....My great aunt had Alzheimers back in the mid 60's and no one knew what it was, she was relativley young, for that disease, 50's i beleive, late 40's, she was committed to Marlboro Phsyciatric Hospital in Marlboro NJ. Its very infamous in my area, my Grandma tells me stories of how her sister in law was in a highchair fpr adults, and in a padded room in a strait jacket! We talk about these things from time to time, as my own mother suffers from mental illness(manic depressive, ocd...etc...) She DOES get hospitalized from time to time, but where she goes is really nice, its hopital ish, but nice. They have the tv room, crafts, snack bars and its very nice and the staff is so cool and friendly, you would ever even know that half the people there are either addicts or paranoid schizophrenics...

Franklin Roosevelt from Annie! "Sing Elenore, it's an order from your commander in chief!"

Oh,my God! I thought it was a skull and screamed o-o My parents are mad at me now XD It's like,12;15 in the moring >.> Wicked shot ^^

Its like a 'TOOL' music video (without the music or the video, but 'Prison Sex' keeps playing through my mind...)

SWEET!

where are these photos taken? i am very interested!!!!!!!

amazing shot and totally creepy!