1,315 Comments for Hellingly Hospital

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This one is stunning! I like the angle you took the shot frrom.
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Beautiful work Motts!
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I just happened upon your site and the architechture does give you a sence of awe ~ art at its best!! The pictures & display of them are perfect. Thank you for letting me in to see....we in the US could learn well from them....dp
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Excelllent gallery!

It seems that buildings in the Europe have less vandalism but decay faster-most likely due to weather conditions.
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Is this an IR shot?

Very nice light and light falloff.
But suddenly the yellow brick road turned and twisted. Forced to walk up the wall, to stay on and follow it, Dorothy and company knew their trip had now taken a bizarre turn of events...
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Maybe it's a super secret escape hatch!!!
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Jude - it's scary just how much you and I think alike.
Love the shades of blue.
Interesting how each door is a different design. Gives the shot even more depth and personality.
I love how you've captured the light filtering through the window panes and how it becomes a spotlight to the dancing swirls of color from the designs on the rug.
What a beautiful design!
I wonder what the images were in the stained glass.
So beautiful! I would love to have this room!
It would have been beautiful to have an artist use those two sections where the arches are and paint a scene in each of them from the floor all the way to the top of the arch. Art like Pre-Raphaelite or Alphonse Mucha. I would line the rest of the walls floor to ceiling with bookcases.
Of course you'd need a tall ladder on wheels to reach them.
This room reminds me of the Disney cartoon, "Beauty and the Beast" when Belle first walks into his library and falls in love when she sees bookshelves from the floor to ceiling filled with books.
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They're too low to be cribs, if anything to do with babies they would be playpens.
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I think they're crates, too, but are you sure those aren't cribs (probably not because they look so old and the place was operating in 1994)?

Many of these big adult institutions had nurseries, most of which were just to care for patient's babies before shipping them out for adoption, others were viewed as a means of therapy. (Believe it or not, caring for unwanted babies has been found to do wonders for both institutionalized mentally retarded women and for the children themselves).
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