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This was a curious contraption... I wasn't able to determine what the attached stand was for, but it was part of a mechanism on wheels with a metal chair tack welded on top. I was thinking it could be a rolling scale or portable barber chair.

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Or the best hallway rollercoaster EVER!

Hmmm I wonder if Lynnie could help out with this one? I'm leaning toward a weigh scale of sorts too Motts, for those who were unable to stand?

Looks like a scale to me....minus the circus barker and stuffed animals for guessing it correctly!

It would have been a weighing scale ;)

i think it is scales, it would probably been the only way to keep these people still to weigh them

i agree with you above

Nice of them to put a chair on wheels for you, Now you can get all sorts of lonely chair shots with minimal effort. ;)

"Necessity is the mother of invention". I am not sure who actually said this. Anyone?

Necessity is the mother of invention

A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. This saying appears in the dialogue Republic, by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.

http://www.bartleby.co.../3/necessityist.html

Thanks Joy! I knew it was an old, old saying.

Here is another good quote:

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne

Paging Dr. Lynne! Your needed in the Great Barr Colony Discusion STAT! (Code Black)

Sorry. Rough several weeks at work.
Yes, it's a rolling chair scale.

I think it's a scale/soap dispenser...

okay but where is the light switch? I though soap dispenser came with lights?!?

That must be the light/soap dispenser next to it...

Joy, I think that thingie on the side is the old rolling sink that the light/soap dispenser hangs above

The light/soap dispenser itself was too curious for the vandals to leave behind

Man a sink with no soap dispenser, well I have seen plenty of lonely soap dispenser milling about. Perhaps we can match the two up...

Why here's one now:

http://www.opacity.us/...753_getting_late.htm

I think it's a portable dentist chair for the English, that's the little sink that you spit in.

Lynnie!!! Happy Belated Birthday girl! Thank you for coming to our "What's This Whatzit?" resuce again.

Grifspop, good to see you again too! :-)

Um..... that would be "rescue". I doo SO no how to speel korectly!

Thanks, Jude, and Happy Belated B'Day to our wonderful Dr. Lynne

Hi, Grifspop. Missing you!

and i wanted it to be a hallway rollor coaster...

from under your bed

I think it is an early Dentists chair.

http://accuratedigital...irscales_compare.htm
http://www.glad.net/productimages/o475.jpeg
http://alcosales.com/A...L-52299?OpenDocument

That chair looks like a rusty good time.

Well... if you like rust then I'll call you Salad Fingers.

Was this the only equpiment you found here, Mr Motts? I can't help but feel a little disappointed.

I didn't see many of the other buildings here, but they all looked similar in that they were cleaned, stripped, and burned... there wasn't much hope for finding more artifacts in the rubble but perhaps someone has...

Did you visit St. Margaret's during its demolition, Mr. Motts?

I visited in August 2006; there didn't seem to be much construction going on then... is it all gone now?

August? Wow, its been under construction for about a year now or even a bit more. My manfriend managed to explore one of the bulidings yesterday. It still had kitchen equipment, bathroom, beds, chairs, it was was apparently rather interesting! But then he met eye contact with a builder...! I think there is still quite a few builidings there. I can still see a tall chimney which I noticed on one of your links when on the top deck of the bus to college.

Wooh!!!! This looks NASTY!!!!!!!!

yay for rollercoasters! .....maybe its from the movie Saw4 lol

Ok i know it's two months late but...

ROTFLMAO JEN!!! (first post)

Did you find a coil starter on that thing?

Dispite some of the jokes made above I have seen this piece of equipment used in a way which would upset most. Uncooperative patients were tied to it in order to get weighed.

There was alot of equiptment around at one time, beds of all kinds, chairs and some very strange contraptions but all has gone now. Most of the buildings have now been demolished on this site, the chapel lane end has definately been gone about 12 months now.

I know no-one has commented for some time, but this chair was used for weighing the patients.

the lone chair strike a a gain

swamp thing fla

it is a weighing scale for people to sit on so they dont have to strain standing.. they still use them in some hospitals.. i think selly oak hospital does..

This was a weighing machine for the patients.
We had one on Veasey Home and kept it in the store room as in this photograph.
The patients clothes were kept on the wooden shelves.
This could be Veasey Home,
I wish I knew.
How I miss St Margarets.

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