I dont remember any acts of violence towards staff or patients during the seventies when I was a patient here locked up because I was not doing what I was told. I think if you confined any human being to a ward for twenty four hours a day acts of minor aggression would occur with the most normal of people. I do know that patients "went in the box " if they were deemed to be difficult and drugged up to the eyeball to pacify them when they came out.

After seeing the state of the place on these pages and on the BBC recently I think that the place should be demolished and turned into a lovely park . The gardens were the best bit of the hospital. Developers should not be allowed to make money from a place of human misery.

I am an ex patient and was here in one of these cells . It was a lock down facility for people going through extreme conditions like Psychosis which I had during an episode of schizophrenia when I was a youngster .Using cells like this is an infingement of human rights and an excuse for poor lazy nursing techniques. These places are very scary and the treatment is even worse , I lost two whole days of my life because they put people who are" difficult " unconsious through drug treatment and I still dont know what other " treatment" I recieved when I was asleep. I was on a lock up ward next door for a month . This bloody place still haunts me to this day and I will never forget the faces of some of the other frightened souls they imprisoned in these things.