1,656 Comments for Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital

Don't ya just hate dry, cracked and flakey lips? Looks like those lips could really use some carmex or something.

Really great captures! Greetings from Germany - Daniel

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I agree Jeanette, it should be preserved.

That's vile.

Gimme shelter. Nice, I like it.

Wasn' t this pyramid head's room?

Seems like something out of a horror movie...what's in the trunk?

That poor cat! It's almost like a car wreck; you shouldn't be looking but you can't turn away. How agonizing!

jackieb,

When the hospitals became overcrowded and no one would increase their funding they had to make use of what space they had, so one of the ideas was to try to separate the space by using dividers. In some of the pictures of old hospitals you will see up to 60 beds crowded together in one medium sized room, where the beds were side to side and head to foot and you could only get to them by hopping from one to another. Even though pony walls look like a huge lack of privacy to us these days, back then any setting aside of space was unusual and was intended to give the person a small sense of personal space. Most of the time pony walls were used for folks who were not ambulatory or who would not wander into each others' space and destroy their belongings.

There are still a number of places where several people may stay/sleep together in one room, especially if they are medically fragile and all need the same intensive support and same type of medical equipment, but most places have done a significantly better job of setting aside private areas in the rooms.

Long answer - short question. :-)

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I LOVE the colors in this one! So calm and tranquil.

It's very interesting to read the comments under each photo. These photos can either bring back very real memories or rattle our imagination. To one person it's simply a photo of a door to a bomb shelter...to another it's a secret passageway for a patient on the run; to another it's a creepy looking door to be feared and approached with caution because we don't know what lurks behind it or what will become of us should we get too close...Very interesting. Love looking!!

These were wonderful. I could kiss your feet, just not on these floors. I'm pff to see more of your pictures.

It makes me think of an opening number for a stage production. Just waiting for the moment.

I love black and white photos.