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| your pics of the baths are fantastic. I live just around the corner and have never been inside the place but always wondered what it was like.
You have done a sterling job of preserving the character and present ambience of the deserted buildings. The dereliction of the place is captured so well it almost makes the ruins justifiable.
It is a shame to lose a building that was created with such craftsmanship and that reflects the style of its time.
Id love to see as many aspects of the building as possible preserved whilst breathing new life and a purpose into the building. Id be interested to hear
if you have any thoughts regarding the potential future fate of the baths.
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| i was born in harpurhey went to burgess street school and remember vividly
going to the baths with the school i couldnt wait to get my free pass each
summer and me and my sister and brother lived there i am now 55 and live in
hyde my family now live in blackley and i pass the baths often when
travelling to see them it is such a lovely building and it upset me in a way
to see it in its present state what wonderful memories i have as a child
living in harpurhey lotherton streeet opposite st stephens church it will
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| Ugh, there's green mould on the roof and everything. It's a shame really. |
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| yes well done a good cause and great to record could be used to identify important or interesting buildings to preserve also try dewsbury,s old swimming baths for your artistic pictures bob runs the squash club on old westgate dewsbury next door tel 01924 451300 he may know how to let you in I am interested in saving and recording old stone buildings and dewsbury has a few your site has giving me a boost to get moving thank you and keep up the fantastic method from gerry |
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| I think your photographs wre absoutely fascinating, like most people in Blackburn i have spent time there, my children have and i've lost relatives there so it's a fascinating place and a real shame they hd to close it. I've often wondered if there are any ghost watches that might be taking place there and would love to join one if there was, please could you let me know if you have any information. |
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| I suppose it wasn't necessarily a bad thing that all of the lights were still on, because it made it easier for you photograph all of its different areas. |
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| Hi there,
What a great site you have, I came via a newsy link named Topix.
I am very interested in Blackburn Royal Imfirmary. I spent 3/4 of my childhood there, its creepy to say the least roaming the old wards lol even virtually. I have to say I was heartbroken when it had to close and I don't see why the money spent on the new place could'nt have been spent on BRI.
Did you ever come across the convalescent ward which used to be the nurses home, I spent weeks in there after reciving the last sacrament. I would love
an image of that to buy.
Looking at the asylum album thank the lord they all got shut down. A lot of people got shoved in places like that when they were lets say, 'troublesome'. As for putting Epileptics away how shocking is that?
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| Aww, the design is so cute. Typical of all hospitals' children's wards really. |
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| The reception area here looks like a bit of a sh*thole, in all fairness. |
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| the photo of reception isnt reception it is the old entra nce to ward8 and the stores entrance the reception was based at the A&E entrancei worked ther for nearly 20 years so this has brought back many happy memories |
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| God, it looks really horrible from the outside. |
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| Beautiful shot you have here- you can see so many parts of the hospital in just the one shot. |
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| Okay, that corridor gives me the creeps. |
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| This place looks like more of a museum than a hospital. Honestly. Nice architecture. |
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| If it weren't for the pools of water on the floor, you would actually think this ward is open and fully functioning. I can't believe the lights are still on. Who is gonna foot the electricity bill for that now?! |
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| Looking at these clips brought back so many memories. I trained at BRI as a nurse and worked there and Queens park when I qualified. I trained in 1975 and finished in 1996 after becomming pregnant with my 4th child. It is sad to see the place looking like this. Queens park is now gone and there are no old photo's as memories, thankfully I have found these and will keep them safe. Thankyou. |
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| That looks a lot like the stairs in my uni! Haha. Deja vu or what?! |
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| I swear, it looks like the place is still open! |
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| It looks like a gigantic photocopier! I've never see an X-Ray machine in real life, ya see..! Was only in hospital twice in my life so far and I was too young to remember being X-Rayed on just one of those occasions. |
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| What a beautiful picture...
Whittingham was my first explore so nturally i thikn the place is gorgeous.
i dont know why but i like the fact that it looks like it been hit by a bomb... but the walls are still painted... its easy to imagine how it used to look.
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| I'm so glad you managed to get pictures of the Regal, as it was when I last went in it! Sad that the pictures have to be of a ruin. The Regal was the one you went to if you wanted to be one up on the Empire, further down the road on Kirkgate
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| Hi, love the Deco theater! It's my favorite era & the one I collect. I named my Antiques business 'JazzBabies Vintage' after the naughty flapper girls that bobbed their hair, sipped cocktails, smoked, & danced to Jazz music.
What are the theater's owners going to do with the remaining fixtures? That's a fabulous hand-rail; it would sure look nice on my stairs...
I hope they have the sense to preserve features like this railing & the lovely curved wall of glass blocks.
I enjoyed it; thanks. - Archaic
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| wonderful memories of buildings which could have served purpose for much longer and enhancing the enviroment with the efforts of architecs and tradesmen of great merit, not the modern works which all look like posh toilets, IE drury lane wakefield |
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| Cane Hill Psychiatric Hospital
I'm in India, been here for several years. We have problems with the Internet due to some cable being snagged in Alexandria by a large ship. I've spent three hours trying to look at your photos of the above this morning...because I had to...
I worked at Cane Hill from 1973 til 1975 as an OCcupational Therapist Aide (My boss was Miss Watson) and met my late husband there too, who came to work in the same department. I worked with Barry Vines and Pauline Chua (Entertainments Officers) and spent about 16 hours a day there most days.
Viewing your photos has taken me back to a place and time that completely changed my life - and I'm not sure, when I saw the photos, whether I felt happy or moved. I think moved, or touched deeply, is a better expression to try explaining to you what you have done for me. I knew Cane Hill had closed and felt touched back then - but seeing these photos and knowing almost every room/area of them...as I spent so much time there talking with patients, organising dance's with patients from Bethlem and Netherne amongst other Hospitals, for the patients in our hospital, and walking the long dark corridors with a young woman of 18 years, trying to get her to stop wanting to kill herself. Being called in the middle of the night because one of my patients had been found dead (suicide they said, but we know otherwise) He was only 19 years old.
How I used to love the walk up the drive every morning and the clubhouse for a drink after work, then the long slow walk back down again to the bus stop. The mists that hung over the fields on the drive and the most beautiful stallions that knew you so well and used to come galoping over to meet you when you began the meander from the front gate. Many memories have jumped back into my heart this morning.
You have brought back a multitude of memories and kind of reminded me where all the work I have done in the past 30 years started from. In fact, from when I became an adult in the true sense of the word and found out that there was a lot more to this world than I had learned util then.
I am truly touched this morning, even disturbed a little. My husband died very young also at 35 yrs old, back in 1986 - and I've been travelling since - though settled here in India since 2000 after finding a small phocomelia boy, whom I am hoping with all my heart to bring back to either the UK or France later this year.
Thank you friend, you have become a part of my life, in that you have shown me again where my vocation began - I hope I can buy these photos so that I may take a good long look at them one day.
God bless you.
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| Only very very recently got into this whole idea of UE, never been out and
done any, don\'t know of many places and don\'t really know anybody
interested.
Your birch hill report inspired me a bit more, i live less 10 minutes from
the place and have been in it a good number of times when it was live,
actually had the pleasure (or not) of staying a night a few years back. Are
you local to birch hill or have you just hear dabout it and travelled to it?
How much of the site did you get to see? its a fairly big site, not sure how
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| I worked at this hospital for30 years.The place has been destroyed by vandals.I cannot tell you how the destruction of this once brilliant, proud place has affected me and probably others who were employed here. |
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| Absolutely brilliant. Never had chance to see the inside before. Thank you and keep up the good work. Too many of our historical buildings just disappear or are converted into something unrecognisable. These buildings need recording and saving in an archive for the future. |
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| I worked at Pinderfields for several years and walked past the chapel on many occasions going to and from work. I never knew that it was so beautiful inside. It always seemed so bleak. Please tell me that the plan is to preserve this work of art. |
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| Super to see pics of S.royd Hospital Chapel where both my wife and I have worshipped. My wife was a nurse at Pinderfields and we both knew Roger Grainger very well when I was an R.C. chaplain. |
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| I think your work is brilliant. Thank you so much for the photo\'s of the cinema and Stanley Royd chapel in Wakefield.
We see more and more of our history disappearing in the name of progress ! so well done you for
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| *Excellent* photo- was that doll actually just propped there when you arrived at the place, or did you place it there? Well, it's a deadly photo. Cool. |
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| Great photo. At the risk of sounding like a proper eejit now, it looks as though 'Hell' (represented by the dark-grey, plump clouds) is trying to envelope 'Heaven' (the red-ish part of the sky). Cool. |
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| This old doll touches my heart... is a miracle you found it... do you still own it? I hope yes. |
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| Heya,
I didn't mean to post a comment about any photo in particular (because they're all excellent), but here I am anyway! God, you've made a great job out of the site.
I find it fascinating how eerie, old buildings are just left to descend into a derelict state. It's weirdly captivating to see how everything is left untouched as though the places were fully functioning the day before (when you brush aside the dereliction!).
I just stumbled on to your site because I was reading up a bit on St Kevin's former Lunatic Asylum in Cork, Ireland. Myself and a few friends have established (go on, laugh..!) an investigatory paranormal group here in Cork. We feel that that side of things is grossly under-represented in the county at present, so we're hoping to change that now! ;-)
Our objective is to travel to various sites and buildings in the Cork area - before expanding our activities to other areas - and to attempt to gather evidence of paranormal activity.
There have been countless stories of hauntings and such bandied about regarding certain places here for many, many years. We want to substantiate these stories, if possible. We aim to have undertaken 10 investiations before 2008 ends. Good auld St Kevin's is on our shortlist already!
We have heard that St Kev's has a horrible atmosphere and that it has creeped the bejaysus out of people even in the daytime. The river below it (the River Lee) has 'played host' to numerous patient drownings throughout the asylum's operation from the 1840s to 2002.
A woman I know, who lives near the hospital, was telling me about renovations on part of the building further down on the site- St Anne's, I think. Some of that is being renovated and converted into apartments. She said that builders and other manual labourers working on the building had legged it out of the place, following a number of strange incidents. They saw shadows in the shape of people, heard voices that couldn't be accounted for, ditto with footsteps, saw debris moving of its own accord and just generally felt an awfully unpleasant atmosphere up there. And that was during the bloody daytime.
Anyway, we're going to brave the place at nighttime- see what we come across ourselves. We are aiming to construct a website as well in order to store accounts of our activites and (possible) findings- not to mention for it to promote what we're all about. So, everything is a work in progress really. But, hey, it's a labour of love.. :-D
Congratulations on your excellent site again- I could probably spend hours looking through everything! It's really cool. You have a great eye for taking photographs and your captions for each one are very apt as well. Evident fab understanding of lighting, proportion, angles and just what simply makes a brilliant photograph. I'm no expert on photography, but I know quality when I see it.
Good luck and God speed to you! :-D
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| I can't believe they actually had a ballroom in this place! Surely to God they didn't have dances and the like, did they?? |
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| Look at the doors all lined up like that- one patient parallel to another, but separated by a wall. That's like something you do to sheep- fencing them in in their pens. |
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| I wouldn't have liked being locked away in that room! If they think that putting someone in there for a day or so would put them in a calmer, more agreeable state, they should have a re-think! |
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| That room is just rank. I wonder what they used it for?... |
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| That tall, upright column thingy reminds me of the chimneys they had in those crematoria in the Nazi-run extermination/concentration camps before. Horrible. |
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| That looks like my grandmother's old living room before! I swear to God it does. It probably smells (or smelled) as musty as her living room too. That sort of 'old people'-type 'aroma'! :-o |
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| thats ward 16, in st lukes block. the corridor on the r/h side of the building leads down to the lawns complex. the lawns was once the hospital superintendants residence, hence its being isolated from the main hospital by the long corridors with locked doors at the ends. its a corruption of the buildings original use as a home for the superintendant, that gave the road at the back of it the commonly used name of 'supers' hill.
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| the cemetary once had 2 chapels in its centre, one side was catholic and one was c of e, these were demolished in the early 1980s and the stones used to build path edges and suchlike. there are reputed to be many thousands buried in this small graveyard. when the big flu pandemics of the early 20th century struck, there would be sometimes ozens and dozens of deaths a month, many were buried in mass graves. there are also these few sad military graves representing staff who left whittingham to fight in the last centuries 2 great wars, and who paid the ultimate price. its poignant that on the return of their bodys to england, their familys regarded the hospital as such a big part of their lives and such an eternal thing, thay they chose to inter them here rather than in the cemetarys in the towns or villages surrounding the hospital. how were they to know that whittingham wasnt going to be there forever |
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| this cellar was once one of my store rooms. we used it to store, as it still does, the cast iron water main repair sections which we used to maintain the hospitals extensive underground water main systems John Regan |
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| the lawns shop in the background was a small corner shop that sold all manner of gifts and nicknacks, as well as sweets and cigarettes. it was staffed by 4 ladies who all took as much care of the patients as any of the nursing staff. they i cant remember all the names, but one was definately dot, or dorothy, and another was a young girl called sharron John Regan |
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| the building onthe left side with the 2 green vents on the roof is whittinghams crowning glory, its beautiful ballroom. the corridor leading away from the foreground, is ward S corridor, where the hospital hairdressers was, the building on the side of the ballroom, partly obscured by trees is the catholic chapel, and the 3 storey building centre shot is ward 3, the small building on the right side of the pic, made of the lighter coloured bricks, was the tv lounge for the langdale unit which was whittinghams secure unit.
as i had worked for over 10 years on the maintainance of the hospital, i have walked all these roofs many many times, and it saddens me to see the state of the old place now. not least because i spent so many hours fitting the bloody lead valleys and land gutters that the toerags have ripped out!!
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| this is the lawns complex, the centre building was the main block, the ground floor had the cafe, the first floor had the library and toilets, and upstairs was closed off and accessible only by a small twisty staircase pictured elsewhere in thei set, when i was there, the old patients files were stored up there. the courtyard to the right of centre was once the private courtyard garden of the hospital superintendant. i remember picking rhubarb in there when i worked there, as it had gone to seed and was growing wild all over the place!
the small building in the botom left was an office staffed by the patients activitys department who would organise activities within the lawns for the patients, from bingo to film shows, even the christmas parties and haloween parties John Regan |
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| i have just returned from tenby and was very impressed with the island what a
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| The Girlfriend and I have just spent the weekend in Tenby and both of us
wanted to find out more about St Catherine' Island.
Your photos are
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| Really thought provoking photo's well done and thank you |
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| I have been abandoned by my mother in this place and then went to France where I lived in a family who made me forget the truth about my birth.
Years later I discovered the truth, and it is the very first time I see pictures of these buildings that I have been looking for from such a long time !
Is everything destroyed today or can we still see something before it is completely destroyed ?
Does someone know if some registers still exist somewhere, with names of people who used to stay there ? It might be the possibility for me to find my father's name or some other personal informations !
Thanks for your help and advices,
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| I have recently read the book called Don't Ever Tell
by Kathy O'Beirne and I was deeply shocked by what happened. I cried when I started to read it because of the way her father treated her and then to be treated so badly by society as well as all the other poor children and women. I find it hard to believe that all of this was going on only up to the last few years. The book itself is like reading something out of the dark ages. Most of these women were all around my age and just to think that all of these things were happening while I was growing up.
I do hope that Kathys campaign for justice for Magdalen girls in Ireland is going well.
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| i to have read the book, Kathys story, and i to cryed
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| These photos bring back memories. I used to help maintain the telephone systems at BRI. It's fairly sad to know that all this will be reduced to rubble in the future. |
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| Hi we have created a website devoted to Blackburn Royal, http://blackburnroyalinfirmary.fotopic.net/
We have managed to find some old photos and a bit of history. |
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Altar & Reredos
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| Worsted & cotton stripings. from Messrs Globe & Copley Marshall |
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| This one is fecking awesome. Luv it mate... |
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| Mark your work is just stunning! I'm very happy to follow it on DA and now I've found your website and it looks fantastic!
Take care. |
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| i think your photography is amazing. You have a brilliant eye for detail and i'm interested to know if you would sell me a picture?? It's only for personal use. If so email me and i will tell you which one. |
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Barrow Hospital
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I'm interested in Urban Exploring but I'm a UE virgin I'm afraid and I'm looking for an easy site to start off with. I live very close to Long Ashton and was wondering what kind of site Barrow Gurney is. Any info would be appreciated. Nice pictures.
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Deluge
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| Brockley Intensive care unit - not secure unit
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Building 8
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| In the '80's and 90's this was the occupational therapy unit |
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Building 9
Barrow Gurney Mental Colony, Bristol |
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| Straight ahead = ground floor was Ashton Unit - Intensive Care unit till Brockley was built - previously was A1 , female acute admission unit |
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| Your photo are wonderful....it saddens me that these one beautiful pieces of architecture end up in such a way.......people once lived, worked and loved in these places and now they are forgotten. I found the pictures of Blackburn Royal Infirmary particularly evocative because as a child I spent time there and as an adult I worked there in the radiology dept whereas now I am working at the new hospital which seems very clinical in comparison (maybe a hospital should feel this way but the infirmary always felt like an old friend to me!!) I am so glad that the old part of the building is not being demolished and will hopefully be restored to its former glory. Thank you once again for these pictures.
Sam |
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Fascia - And Now.....
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| some of the most nostalgic photos i have ever seen as I feel Iam part of the history of the place.it's where I learned to swim. We went every week from primary school Moston Fields piled onto a red bus. There was always a rush to get back to school and yes the cubicles were small and your underwear and socks were always difficult to put on. Loads of talcum powder helped. If there was no room in the cubicles you were directed upstairs to change in the bathrooms. We had swimming galas from school . I always remember the canvas curtains and the green line tiles on the floor of the pool. In the summer hols the baths was a good trip out and I could walk there from Church lane and one of the cake shops would sell penny bits in a bag. My mum used the laundry every Saturday as we did not have as washing machine . the car was loaded up and everything came back ironed. We also had lessons in a third pool that had stone steps into it. I think we called this the victorian pool. The entrance into the baths was all oak panels and tiled in the usual victorian way but as a child I never noticed them so thanks for taking the detailed pictures of the remains of the beautiful interior. Thankyou for taking the photos they are absolutely brilliant |
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Archive Image
Lindley Clock Tower |
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| Hi , had a crash and lost your email, hence using form. Thanks for offering us the link which we have now included. I went around a few years ago, your pictures are excellent, thanks
regards
Simon |
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Meirick Lloyd Davies local Plaid Cymru Councillor, A True Gent And The Only One To Come Out And Talk Sensibly.
Denbigh Fire November 2008 |
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| Yeah he was the only one .......was good of Him to come back out after everyone firing questions at him!!! |
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Ect Treatment Unit
Denbigh Fire November 2008 |
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| Yes , we'd wheel them through those doors. I never liked it but as a junior , it was my job. |
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Ect Recovery Room
Denbigh Fire November 2008 |
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| I spent a lot of time in here with patients recovering from ECT. |
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The Bristol Cathedral of the Holy Apostles |
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| It's such a shame that a cathedral could end up like this!
Beautiful photographs though, as always. |
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Red Cross
Bradford Childrens Hospital |
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| good stumble across... tells a tragic story in itself |
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First Floor Bay
Bradford Childrens Hospital |
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| Hello, I have a picture that you could add to bradford Childrens Hospital.
It's on deviantART: http://james-dolan.deviantart.com/art/Circular-Room-135209487
James Dolan |
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