1,656 Comments for Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital

Another amazing gallery, thanks Motts!

I like that it points ambiguously to the centre of a T intersection.

Man, you would not want to get your lefts and rights mixed up. "I'm only supposed to be here for a conference"... "yes, yes, that's what they all say, now lie down...."

@Flushed my mother recites this often, it's one of many little quips she got off her father who was forever reciting some little ditty or other... before he developed dementia that is...

"the building had almost every door and corridor labeled."
^ and OCD Administrator with a label maker.

@Mica - don't forget ORGANIC!

Out. There.

Back when 60+ was considered "aged".

Interesting snippet and not surprising. Adaptability or motivational integration seems to be the key to longevity (can we call it will to live?). It would be interesting to see these statistics for recent times with reference to not just hospitalisation but any major change (loosing a longterm partner for example, downsizing from the family home into a unit, moving into care). The hospitalisation seems to be the point of blame for the deaths (see comments above) yet I would put it to you that it's the lack of adaptability to new surrounds (regardless of what they are) that's the real factor. Hospital's just the fall guy (generally speaking of course, not saying there's never been mistreatment to anyone anywhere).

Had a 94yr old relative recently had to leave her home for a care facility and she lasted less than two weeks. Accepting she would never be in a position to be self sufficient, she was mentally ready and, well, what's that Matrix quote; the body cannot live without the mind.

Nah... it looks painted shut too.

I'm guessing it's a door to a circuit breaker panel. The small door would let someone safely reset a breaker, and the large one for a service worker to access the components under the panel, without having to break through the wall.

Don´t suppose you DID open that door, Mr. M.?
Wonder what is behind. They sure did have slick minds,back in the days;
now - why open a whole big door, when you may open a little, to see what you need to see....awesome crafty really!

......pigeon-crap: - is an excellent fertilizer -
The overseer, from #25, could collect it and sell it, in brown paper-bags:
"PRIMA NORTHAM MANOR FIRST QUALITY GUANO"

I was going to say it is probably be an accounting function, and looks like they're tab stops - doing columns of numbers on a manual typewriter is the suck.

I'm putting 50 bucks down on it being a Royal (probably a KHM).

Yeah, thanks flushed. Doves (Columbidae - so many of them) - then even found recipes - delicate, delicious? - tastes good with mushrooms! Crazy. Maybe dweller catches, easily; and eats, fried? Taste like Apple, French Fries and Wonderbread?
...and HOW would the GUANO smell ever go away from the building?
Ahhh, this Site - always ponderous.....

Ahhhh: "Produce"?

Or a Band.