942 Comments for Severalls Hospital

Look how small those peep holes are on the doors. Imagine being a patient locked in trying to look out and see some life/movement. Pretty depressing if you ask me.

Great Picture Mott's !!!

So did this fire happen when the asylum was still in use? Any info about the fire would be appreciated.

The last gallery I posted before the England sets was from July 2005; so I had jumped over a time span of about a year, where I had developed my style, so it might seem like a more abrupt change here online than it really was.

Motts, I notice you're using more angles and slanted view points. You've never really done that before. I was wondering what brought about that change? Experimenting with new things?

Sad to think that our decendents will only know what a Kirkbride is from a book, not a building

"Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the Billboard charts over 14 yrs, it's like a rock masterpiece.

Tony C., I'm still out here checking Motts' site , just haven't been posting as much

Tinker bell where are you?

I'd want to have a bat, NY homeless can be quite unpleasant....in fact there were a few kids attacked by some homeless guy in the 1980s. They snuck into Pilgrim and disturbed him. He thought the abadoned area was his "house" and the kids were trying to take it. I'll have to see if there's an article about the incident on google....

Welcome to my world minktail, I've had it stuck in my head for years! :-D

Thanks, Jmack! : )
I was just thinking how intimidating this hallway could be to a patient, if they had to walk down it with a staff member, or by themselves. It is so long to begin with. And if it didn't have any windows?That would make it all the more so!

Thanks Ed from Oregon

The Kirkbride design was mostly used in asylums in the United States, and there are many hospitals (both active and abandoned) which use this layout that are still extant.

Thank you for another new gallery Mr. Motts!! Ed from Oregon

A little 3-in-one oil, and give it a push! Imagine the faces of people in the area if the clock started working again?

GRIFS!!!! Aint Floyyd GRRREAT?? Good to see ya! Where ya been lately?