Richard Davies I can at least one widow bricked up. In England at one time there was a window tax that lead to some home owners filling in their windows, & never put them back after the tax was lifted. There's on old lodge house near to me that has a few of these.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

	Richard Davies I was 7 on this date, it was 16 days after my sister's first birthday.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

	Richard Davies Maybe someone was seeing if there was any copper pipes behind.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 7 (Medical Building)

	Richard Davies I guess this was let behind because the same function can be done on a much smaller board with just a few chips.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: The Quad

	Richard Davies Isn't a pad lock one with a lockable loop?rather than one fixed to a door, like this example.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: The Quad

	Richard Davies It looks like something electrical was removed from the wall on the left.

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

	Richard Davies The tools look like that had come from my old friend's Dad's shed. He seemed to have gained a lot of old tools from reletives over the years.

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

	Richard Davies The thing on the wall looks like an burgular alarm box, possibly linked to a panic button.

Location: Whittingham Hospital  Gallery: Shut In

	Richard Davies The decorations at the bottom of the arch have been removed. I guess they were too easy for someone to knock over. The dado rails have also gone in time.

Location: Whittingham Hospital  Gallery: Shut In

	Richard Davies I'm sure I've seen that design of carpet before.

Location: Whittingham Hospital  Gallery: Shut In

	Richard Davies I'm surprised no-one's added a face. I would along with a speech balloon saying "arrgh!"

Location: West Middlesex Hospital  Gallery: The Mortuary

	Richard Davies It looks the the high mounted tank was to flush out the sink below, which I guess was for washing surgical equipment.

Location: West Middlesex Hospital  Gallery: The Mortuary

	Richard Davies Where the batteries like car batteries? If so it wouldn't be a good idea to mess with them because of the acid inside.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Hello Again

	Richard Davies I thought this was an upright massage table when I first saw it!

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Restraints

	Richard Davies I think you can still get sinks with seperate hot and cold taps. My house has one that was fitted in the late 1980s. The waste pipe doesn't have a U bend, unless it's under the floor.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Restraints

	Richard Davies I always need to lie on a couch when having blood removed, because I faint easily & would keel over otherwise.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Restraints

	Richard Davies It looks like someone removed a phone from the wall behind.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Restraints

	Richard Davies A first I thought this was all sand from a tipped over fire bucket.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies It's interesting that these older chairs have the castoring wheels at the back. I wonder why they are on the front on newer ones.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies It's interesting how many places like his have pianos left behind in them.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies Accorinding the the Wikipedia: "The name gurney comes from its similarity to a horse-drawn cab patented in the USA in 1883 by J. Theodore Gurney. "

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies I've only known these as Kidney Bowls. Check out the Red Dwarf episode Polymorth for a good example of using them to serve food in.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies I throught this was a washing machine at first!

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies It might help when planning numbers for chapel services. Normally chapels would be too small for all patients to attend one service, so a few spread over a Sunday split by denomiation would make things more manageable.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	Richard Davies This reminds me of the gang out to get Brigette Nielson in Cobra.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze