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High mounted door.. Very interesting.

Perhaps to keep people from ramming the door to escape?

Sat 07-01-2006

You can see from the way the wall is painted that the floor that used to be here is missing. However, it means that whatever was under the floor was short in height. Motts, do you know the story here?

Lynne

Sat 07-01-2006

that is not unusual ... i mean the use of 2 colors in medical or health buildings being the darker color the bottom one at about the height of one's lower chest. at least some parts of my home town hospital are like that also sometimes a wooden kind or rail or aplication is used separating the colors along the halls and even rooms. anyway i think its a window

Jmack

Sat 07-01-2006

It's a window cover like in the previous photo... just a tall room with a dual-color paint job.

Motts

Sat 07-01-2006

Thanks Motts... Maybe I've had enough Early Times tonight!

Sanitarium

Sat 07-01-2006

Well THAT makes a lot more sense!

P.S. Jmack, that's interesting what you said about the bi-color walls in Europe.

Lynne

Sat 07-01-2006

im shure that there is a reason for the use of 2 colors ... since most of the hospitals i visit here in portugal use this . usually dark grey versus light grey . sometimes light grey vs white . and in older hospitals some 70's colors combinations. anyway a little research would be nice.

Jmack

Sat 07-01-2006

I knew it was a window right away, do I get a prize?
.....or should I just shut my cake hole? ;-)

Jude

Sat 07-01-2006

i suspect im under attack again ... :(

Jmack

Sat 07-01-2006

Oh no! For what? We'll take care of you! :-)

Lynne

Sun 07-02-2006

Jmack you just stick with us hon. ;-)

I can see where it would be easy to think this is 2 floors and that is a door, it was the size of the light bulb and the vents in the walls that gave it away for me though.

Jude

Sun 07-02-2006

Me too Jude, recognized it from the last pic :) I want a gold star personally. haha

Mollie

Sun 07-02-2006

All I know is that if I was kept in a room like this for too long, I KNOW I would go crazy!

Nancy

Mon 07-03-2006

I'm just gonna say the picture's upside down - the light in the center is actually a floor lamp.

foxtrot_xray

Mon 07-03-2006

I would imagine that having the walls painted two colors would mean that if it needed repainting, you only had to do half at a time.

jenifersf

Mon 07-03-2006

why were the walls pink? To cheer the people up. Bet it didn't work well

Joe

Tue 07-04-2006

I second the upside down theory.... We all know that Motts has superhuman abilities, maybe hanging from the ceiling is one of them!

Dr Sketch

Tue 07-04-2006

Well someone did mention something about sending out the Bat signal for him...interesting

Kadee

Tue 07-04-2006

I'm suffering some angst. Jmack makes a lot of sense and I definately appreciate it. The problem is that he might be my doppleganger. This is a great photo and I appreciate the talent of capturing the essence of it. So far this place has not moved me . Is it me, or am I missing something.

Johnny Mac

Tue 07-04-2006

I still totally don't get why the floor is lower and all that stuff...Its too late and summer vacation. Maybe thats why.

Cool shot, is making me think. Ugh.

Sam

Wed 07-05-2006

Sam ... its not a door, the floor is not lower . its a window on a division painted in 2 colors

Jmack

Wed 07-05-2006

johnny mac - i know what you mean. this place seems very, um, sterile? motts - did it feel that way to you?

surly girl

Wed 07-05-2006

Okay, I feel *extremly* stupid and blonde, thankyou Jmack. That's a big window.

Arg. Its like 4AM, maybe thats why I cant understand anything right now.

Excuse my general stupidity and blondeness. =D

Sam

Wed 07-05-2006

surly girl, my princess,

Never ask a man in the prime of his virility if he feels "sterile." Just a small hint. ;-)

Lynne

Wed 07-05-2006

i think i was attacked again ...

Jmack

Wed 07-05-2006

Nope, no attacks. Everyone is still loving you, best as I can tell. :-)

Lynne

Wed 07-05-2006

It was very sterile... most of the hospitals in England seem to emit this feeling in my opinion, I suppose I will hear other views in the future galleries and see if you guys agree.

Perhaps it was the renovations, or lack of equipment and objects that drive the feeling of people having lived here that cause this...

Motts

Fri 07-07-2006

kinda crepy but very cool!

Amanda

Wed 07-19-2006

I hope maybe I can be a part of this group. you guys all seem cool and have good opinions on the pictures. plus Motts sounds awesome!!

jam3996

Sat 08-05-2006

what is the difference between this room and a prison cell?

Jason

Tue 08-15-2006

Its looks up side donw. with a floor lamp; you can tell by looking at the bottom of the door
that really is the top of the door.

Cat

Fri 10-13-2006

Standard hospital/prison/asylum paint job .......dark bottom/cream top ...been overpainted to brighten it up and the modern paint is peeling back to the 1904 2 tone

it is a nightmare

even if there used to be floor where it looks as if there is a darker paint job, the door would have been set lower than the floor.

hendrix

Sun 02-04-2007

..hospitals used to paint the lower half of walls darker to cover the color of blood. ..that's why a lot of hospitals are painted green -- green doesn't show "blood" red.. ..and if one is laying on a gurney the blood isn't going to splatter to the ceiling.. ..just about chest high for a standing person..

magicdot

Tue 04-03-2007

..oh. ..and the floor is lower on purpose.. ..it keeps patients from breaking down the door.. ..you can tell there was no floor there by the moulding under the door frame..

magicdot

Tue 04-03-2007

it`s a window with a shutter over it.......D`oh..........Trust me I lived there.....LOL

Juicy Fruit

Fri 07-13-2007

I really wonder if they thought it trough before they built some of these places

dances_w_clouds

Wed 11-07-2007

maybe the bi-color thing is so the part of the wall that gets touched a lot wont show the dirt as much?

PinkBones

Sat 12-01-2007

I think it was done by a Bi-Polar Painter

Juicy fruit

Wed 01-16-2008

Life is not but A joke Gods joke that pic. is emityness and loneyness my curse from God
that pic discrbesed my life Gods Joke Love
is four good-looking and Rich without that your
Shit GODS-JOKE FROM -HELL

so small

Like I said previously I think that ''door'' maybe a window. It seems as though it may be a punishment room of some kind preventing the patient to have any social means by blocking their view or maybe a space where experiments may have took place? Would make anyone go mad!

Bummblebee

Sun 06-21-2009

lol, i'm a painter (not bi-polar though) they call it two-tone, or mono-chromatic. such a fancy name for a room with two colors...

colin

Sun 02-13-2011

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Date Shot:	May 2006	Image ID#:	4062
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Built:	1897	Closed:	1994
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