942 Comments for Severalls Hospital

yo- im just a kid doin a project on TB and other diseases but these pics help alot with knowing how the patients lived in these kinds of situations...
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No, ECT was not used with water, as the shock impulses are delivered to a specific spot in the brain.

http://en.wikipedia.or...roconvulsive_therapy
http://ect.org
In old Asylems they would use "Shock Therapy" ( Cruel way of putting it) and the person wpuld be submurged in water and the would send electick shocks into the water, in the end they were so burnt up that they had to wrap the person from head to toe in bandages...umm...yeah...just thought you might want to know that maybe thats what happened here...maybe.
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It looks like the leftover from a bygone era
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i remember you isaac
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either side of windows lay quadrangles where patients could sit,a german architect designed severalls
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the main hall was attacked by arsonists it boasted an original sprung floor.
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indeed between the pipes was a payphone and barton ward ibelieve lay beyond those doors.
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three and a half miles of corridor,and as big underneath as was above.
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i wonder if they had a deaf husky dog?
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to think i had the privilege of climbing these a time when all was well
The converted & occupied warehouse next to where I work has a sign mentioning that all the lead flashing had been removed.

I guess this is to warn anyone thinking of stripping it.
The end wall style is known as a Dutch Bell gable.
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doesn't stop the pikeys tho - this whole place is pretty much stripped. one of the admin buildings had the entrance hall full with lead stripped from the roof last time i went...
That's the second set of narrow double doors there on the right hand wall, I guess it's for some fire equipment.