667 Comments for Essex County Isolation Hospital

I was on my back strapped in so I could not moved.

I spent a very long mind numbing, soul destroying and lonely time strapped to one of these gurney's there. I was 5, I think I was on it for a year or more it certainly felt it. Maybe this is the one. I was injured by a fellow child who assaulted me. Broken Neck.

MVH let me enlighten you. That simplicity and carelessness with files. That lax attitude is what gave cover to the lowlifes that abused children in this place and institutions all over the country. Technology has finally provided a solution to the "lost" records problem.
The hallway also looks familiar like it is either the school or maybe the Administrsation area. Man that color green was all over everything then. They evben tiled the main building up to 6 feet off the tiled floors with tiles that color. I hated it, the walls seemed so dirty all the time even tho they washed them down fairly often, they just seemed dirty.
Funny story, I got some paint a last year on sale and painted my interiors with it and halfway thru I realized it was the same color ! It didn't bother me tho. Looking at that picture my green is a lot less blue, phwoosh missed it by that much:-}

reminds me of the school again.

Looks like one of the classrooms. There was a lot of built in wood work all real nice quality like what you see there. it gave me some comfort in a very cold and ugly place to see the craftsmanship and look at the intriicacy's of the joinery. I tried to figure out how everything was put together. I wanted to be a carpenter.

I see that and I think school. I am pretty sure that is the school we attended.

That looks like the tunnel we used to go back and forth from the childrens shelter. each meal. we ate in the hospital. It was pretty run down then too. Mid 60's

I see a humidifier for an oxygen lead. Picture a large beaker of sterile water in the C with the top just above down on it. The a hose coming from the tube projecting from it. The pulley behind was probably the pump for the process.

Contact me how?:-}
Post something and I will see it.

I lived in that place. That picture has my skin all puckered up like goos flesh. It was an evil and horrible place for me. If anyone remembers the paralysed kid that was kept on a gurney in the hallway by the offices contact me please.

its a baby shaker, or a compacter.

Absolutely beautiful - great colours

Massive place

The more I see, the less I understand my fascination with shots like these. Initially I thought it was my curiosity being piqued: Who sat there? Who wrote that? What did it sound like when it was occupied? Why is that there...?

But then I see a photo like this. No human elements come into my mind...I'm just scared shitless; and I love it! Why does part of my brain keep telling me not to look at that photo because something's going to loom out of the darkness? And more to the point, why do I go on looking...?!

The mind boggles.

I was engrossed in the layers of this photo, staring intently at the colours and textures and starting to wonder what, exactly, was through that doorway and up those stairs...

...then my mobile heralded a text message and I jumped out of my skin. Jesus, I get wrapped up in these photos!