Main Lobby

*GASP* SOOO PERTEH! ARE THOSE LITTLE TILES ON THE FLOOR, LOOKS LIKE IT, IF THEY ARE, THERE PROBABLY THE ORIGINAL.

Look at the first step...looks like a marble staircase...

Ever notice how elegant the administration ward always looks so that family members THINK their loved one is going to a luxurious place so that they don't see what REALLY went on or what it looked like?

Notice you hardly ever see pix from active wards...now understandeably, patients deserve their privacy...but you'd think that either a patient or nurse at some point would have a camera and snap a shot or two.

So elegant!

kinda makes you want to fix it up. The sign says "LOUNGE AND LIBRARY" wonder what those look like

Gorgeous, simply. And the floor looks like a quilt

this dosn't look all that great of beautiful i'm not talking about the war it looks like now. but it dosn't have the elabrate staircase or wood work etc. that you see in the other picture that we have seen.

I want to move in

thanks-----love the black and white shots!

I have to admit--they are easier to sketch!

Check out the laughing Native American Chief on the wall at the top of the stairs.

The style there as I can see is of the Spanish influence. From the wrought iron on the stair case to the more moorish tilework on the floor. I could almost see this area in terra cottas and avacados here.

this is the lawns complex. when the hospital was built, the superintendant lived on site, in a big 'house' that was a part of the hospital, linked by 2 corridors, but seperate, locked off and private. it was a huge dwelling with about 7 or 8 bedrooms, offices , even a large private garden and allotment.etc etc. in late years, it was refurbished as a day centre for patients, with a cafe(where my wife worked) a shop, and a tv lounge, upstairs was a small library, a pool table and a full size snooker table, there was also a quiet lounge. and s taff room where the nursing staff devisede things to help the patients pass the day. the connection with the superintendant wasnt completely lost though. anyone who worked there will have known the road that leads up past this building from haighton mannor as 'supers(superintendants) hill'

and, yes, thats a tiled floor.

this room really was nice... the staircase was so pretty..

I am looking for hospital records. Could you please direct me to the right place.

Thank you.

S

This was where they experimented on the people.
Think about it : would you want your torture chamber to be cold and sterile and out-of-the-way or would you want cozy comfortable and convenient? -and music,don't forget music.

One mother I worked with was considering placing her severely disabled child in an institution. She had other children to care for, her husband had left her because of the stress of constantly caring for a child with such overwhelming needs, she had no support from her family because the child's behavior was so unpredictable, doctors and other professionals were advising institutional placement, and assistance available to her in the community was so limited. When she went to the institution to discuss her child's admission, they showed her the swimming pool, the greenhouse, the benches and swings on the grounds, the workshops, and the cottages where the children lived. It all looked so supportive, and all the patients she saw seemed happy and busy. As she was leaving, prepared to bring her child there in a few days, one of the nurses pulled her aside and told her that what she had been shown was only applicable to a few of the residents, those with the most abilities and fewest needs. The nurse let her have a glimpse of the kind of ward where a child in her child's condition would be placed--a noisy, smelly ward with no training activities and patients in cribs all day. She kept her child at home.