580 Comments for Margate State School

i was just thinking that it looked like blood in the tray
strange shot...

i thought that was a childs head for a moment....
after jumping back like hell that i

it makes you wonder what happened to the rest of the face...

no, they are letters on the tiles

if you look carefuly, you can make out some of them
such as 'th' 'oo' 'ch' 'l' and i think one might just have a punctuation mark on it [ ' ]

Back in the time I went to our state school for the blind, mid/late 80 early 90sfor their summr school program, the old admin/dorm/dinning room building had several floors, ground, which was at the street level. They had admin offices and the like there, then a "basement" that was at garden level I think it is called. The activity room and dinning room nd a bunch of other rooms I never learned the use for were there... Then above the "ground" floor you had floors 1 and 2, which confused me at first because clearly anyone looking at the building could count 3 levels, plus the garden level... At any rate. There were stairs going from the garden level up to the top floor. Not straight up ut short flight a landig, short flight, a landing, ect. ect. We were always housed on the top floor of the building, even the SMH kids some of whome couldn't do the stairs. Which is hy we had the creeky old intreeguingly smelling rattletrap elevator... This thing was so old you had to pull a gate across before it would go anyplace and you couldn't fit many people on it. This is how the SMH kids went down to dinner or anyplace that as off the op floor. Execpt, that s, in case of fire or emergency, neither of hichever took plac hen I as here. If ever.
They, the school, ere required by law to have this thing, some contraption on wheels that you'd restrain a non-amblulatory person into and I guess slide down the steps. I nver got to see this thing in acton but did sk about it and hat was what I was told.

And... LOL OMG, if I'm seeing correctly, which may or may not be the case, this evening, and those ARE the horrid scratchy plastic chairs with the triangle hole out of the back, I too had to suffer them in grade school. I always wondered what that hole was for? Ventlation I guess...

LOL Rome. "Back in that time." This makes me laugh. And feel horridly old.

I bet what will happen to all this stuff when the place closes for good is... Nothing. They'll leave it there and vandels will get hold of it or folks will attempt to make off with it, provided they can untangle all that, for the scrap metal or it will get pulled out and go on the junkheap when and if they pull down the building. Just my thoughts though...

loll I'm in my final year of high school and luckily never had to endure the horror of those chairs :P But it's neat to hear all your detailed explanations, I'm really into history so I'm always interested in what it really felt like to be back in that time.

Thank you; I'm not positive on the function of this building, but yes it looked like an old dormitory. The hospital is a cottage plan institution, so most of the buildings look like large houses in a rural setting.

This photo is stunning. Very nicely done.

Thom used to be the name of the medical hospital on the school's campus, but now it's just another building (I'm not sure what it's used for).

My guess is that the window in the wall was used for observation. Given my prior knowledge of the school, the lonely little chair is sitting in the middle of a corridor that connected to large dormitory rooms where the young male residents of the school would sleep with their beds lined up in rows.

This is a beautiful shot. Do you know, was this in an old dormitory?

They've got an identical wheelchair on the front porch of the library at this school.

This school is absolutely amazing.