Carriage

Again, NICE SHOT! love the shadows.

this one makes me want to cry

My gosh thats disturbing! I take it that's for adults? Oh Lynne, where are you? XD

this picture totally shocked me !! Motts, was it adult sized, or child sized??

Here I are! You gonna take me for a ride in the buggy later, Babs?

Oh yes, right down that staircase over yonder! I mean... ; )

Yeah, now that I look at it, the footrest type thing is too close to the seat to really fit adults legs. I think the seat definitely is sagging, as the back is tipped way over.

Whoops! I forgot to add that it looks broken, my guess is that some other kids who were exploring the place earlier thought it would be fun to push each other around in it, I bet that's why the seat is so low.

it doesn't exactly look a new model now does it?

it still disturbs me tho

yeh i agree completely that is really disturbing in a creepy, mental, 'perfect for this website' kind of way
great pictures!!

young enough to be in a stroller, yet old enough to be deemed "insane"....

Oh my yes, this one makes me sad.......

No way is that adult sized and I have no clue how it got here.

Even when new that carriage was not designed for an adult. The wheels are very light-duty and steel-tubing is definately not designed to support 200+ lbs

for those love sickness...great!!!!!!

i just have to say i love this shot!

As eerie as it seems.. you can almost hear a child crying when you look at the picture

OOh, that is so sad!

I do not think it is for an adult. I think it is for a child and it is so very sad. At one time a little child sat there and likely cried..

How very forlorn and sad.

Could it be possable that the hospital had a day care for employee's or possably one for outpatient care?? I dont know if they did outpatient but.. if there were tricycles and this carriage. My guess would be daycare.

I do not think a child that young would be considered insane. I was wondering if maybe some of the mothers were aloud to take care of thier children if they were deamed fit to do so even if not fit to leave the institution? Some thing like how mothers are often aloud to raise thier children even though they are imprisoned.

I have seen cases that mental patients
can have mental babies or childern that will grow up just like the retarded parent.
I have seen a case personally. The child
would claw its face and rip its hair out or
claw at other childern or adult and they will scream if someone tries to help the
child. Even at infancy a newborn had to have mitts when it kept tearing its skin and eyes on purpose. This was not a normal newborn infant. It is still that way.
It will not let you make eye contact.
It was due to the parents who were
mentally retarded. The doctors saw it in her genes. Scary but true. Case closed.

You know. That is the funny thing about Mental Ilness.
It like many other diseases has no boundaries by race, creed, gender, religion.

However, cases like this are not common. They are maybe 1 in a million.
I would have to defer to Lynne on the actual fact of the matter.

I think we can safely say that the case has been opened back up. :-)

Well, unless we are talking about an autobiographical experience here or something . . . =8-o

if it was for a child it worries me that a child would be put in the same hospital as adults... and perhaps maybe it could also be for an underdeveloped mently ill patient someone small for their age and weak ?email comments to justicedreams24@aol.com

whaa! brilliant shot, so creepy! and so sad!

ah!!! lol freaky

Yoa wanna cry lou..im crying...oh my godess. whats that doing there...tahts just to freaky

Looks to me like the children's ward, I was there a few years ago

talk about freaky. i was born here in the 60's. i feel normal enough. some days i wonder

wow how sad! to think tricycles and carriages were in a mental hospital?! umm i don't like the thought of that, unless it was for visiting children!

My first thought was "skeletal remains" eww that is so freaky! I Would love to see this carriage first hand seriously, i live not too far from there...

so sad.

OMG that is the creepiest thing i have ever seen...

Carriage from Rosemary's Baby?

Out of all the pictures I've seen this is the one that just crushed me. Can you picture being a child in an institute? Imagine how many children were actually there? Who would the play with? This is too sad.

"Imagine how many children were actually there"
"Who would they play with?"
Each other?

Day-um! You beat me to it! 8`-)

I'm just so good at being a asshat, and apparently I'm a faster asshat than Lynne.

I truly grovel at the feet of your asshattedness, my Queen.

Get off your knees Lynne and clean up the baby guts from the wall. Because of course they took the babies in these strollers and rolled them so fast down the hallway they hit the walls and splattered everywhere.

I was looking at this picture when some debris fell down my chimney, thus causing me to scream my pants off.....resulting in my 2year old son and my one year old daughter also screaming and crying. panic over though, 've managed to reassure them both that there isn't a raaagh in the picture. haven't convinced myself though....

Now THAT'S funny! Motts, see the impact your work has on some people? Now there's a new monster called a "raaagh," thanks to you! 8`-)

That is for a baby or small child. The arm rests are that high to keep a baby from falling over the side. But the one I had in 1973 was newer than this one.

wow, thats alli can say. its so beautiful int he most eerie way.

that's a really good pic.

but may I add... jo and lynne... I think you've just given me one of the greatest laughs I've ever had on this site. thank you for lightening up the mood here! XD

Holy crap, I was going to say this was an old scool carriage but you had to ruin the fun.

What a very sad shot. It looks like a 60s era baby carriage.

i fucking saw that shit when i went there. creepy as hell.

skeety, psychological problems & mental illness can not be Hereditary. They are things that must be Aquired through Life Experience. like Me for example, I've got some psychological issues that I've only aquired since 2003. I was in a car wreck in August, 2003 & the Brain Trama caused a few things with me that are a little bit off. I Can't be affraid of things anymore (...Anything...at all), I can't smell anymore, & awhole slew of other issues...I was Clinically Dead for 4 Minutes (Combined time....intermitant heart beat...)

i workek WSH 54-56 and there were NEVER childre housed there

i just don't know how doctors can asume that a child so small can be insane. . . unless they had insane parents who put their child there

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Carolina....... what a trip! You really can find just about anything on the web

Given enough "time" everything can take on a scary, abandoned and worn out look. Amazing shot!

my son's carriage was identical. 1970. sad to say but back inthe day infants, children were were placed if they were born with any kind of defect, from Down syndrome to cerebal palsy. not sure if they went to wsh,but this stroller may have been used for a really small adult. it does seem tp sag.

Many of my family members had worked at Worcester State Hospital at various times. When I saw this photo in Worcester Magazine ages ago, I asked my mother about it. She told me that there was a maternity ward at the hospital, as patients would sometimes have children. I am unsure of if any children actually lived at the hospital, but I shall be sure to ask about that sometime. She worked at the hospital during parts of teh 1970's and 1980's. I could probably get some information on the what the hospital was like during the 1960's from my grandmother, who also worked there. I will be sure to inquire. If any one ever has specific questions about the workings of the asylum around the time which it closed, then feel free to e-mail me. I am fascinated by this facility, and will not mind helping people with research or quelling simple curiosity regarding Worcester State Hospital. My e-mail address is katt at tokyo dot com.


As for the actual photograph, it is chilling. It makes my heart skip every time I look at it, as I wonder if children could have actually been held in the asylum. It is just so hauntingly beautiful.

It looks like they pushed them around all day

maybe some of the patients here had families visit them and this stroller was for that?

That is quite disturbing, Motts. Wonderful shot, but disturbing nontheless.

ANOTHER creepy equipment that comes to life! yikes

what was it used for an were children here at worcester ?

That stroller looks like the ones I saw in the Disneyland Fun Sing Along video.

I find this pictue rather interesting. Its different from the typical Motts
lone wheelchair.

back then all cerebral palsy, downs syndrom and deformed children used to be institutionalized from birth

I was actually born here in 1963, and am currently doing substantial research about WSH, as I was there for nearly 4 years. Basically, I "grew up" there.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I am particularly interested in the "research" they were doing there, and if there is any evidence any was conducted on babies born there.