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Apparently I live next to an abandoned mental asylum, so inspired by Mercie 's trip to Centralia (the inspiration for Silent Hill), I went searching for my own little piece of hell on earth.
Severalls Hospital in Colchester, Essex, UK was a psychiatric hospital built in 1910 which first opened in May 1913. The 300-acre (1.2 kmē) site housed some 2000 patients and was based on the "Echelon plan" - a specific arrangement of wards, offices and services within easy reach of each other by a network of interconnecting corridors. This meant that staff were able to operate around the site without the need to go outside in bad weather. The architect of the asylum was Frank Whitmore. Unlike modern British hospitals, patients in Severalls were separated according to their gender.
Villas were constructed around the main hospital building as accommodation blocks between 1910 and 1935. Most of the buildings are in Neo Georgian style, with few architectural embellishments.
Psychiatrists were free to "experiment" with new treatments on patients seemingly at will using practices now considered unsuitable such as electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) and the use of frontal lobotomy. These practices reached their climax during the 1950s. In her book 'Madness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997', Diana Gittins notes that often women were admitted by their own family, sometimes as the result of bearing illegitimate children or as they had been subjected to rape. As they would not always (or were unable to) carry out daily tasks, they were considered to be "mad" and some were even subjected these procedures.
More hell on earth here.
Severalls Hospital in Colchester, Essex, UK was a psychiatric hospital built in 1910 which first opened in May 1913. The 300-acre (1.2 kmē) site housed some 2000 patients and was based on the "Echelon plan" - a specific arrangement of wards, offices and services within easy reach of each other by a network of interconnecting corridors. This meant that staff were able to operate around the site without the need to go outside in bad weather. The architect of the asylum was Frank Whitmore. Unlike modern British hospitals, patients in Severalls were separated according to their gender.
Villas were constructed around the main hospital building as accommodation blocks between 1910 and 1935. Most of the buildings are in Neo Georgian style, with few architectural embellishments.
Psychiatrists were free to "experiment" with new treatments on patients seemingly at will using practices now considered unsuitable such as electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) and the use of frontal lobotomy. These practices reached their climax during the 1950s. In her book 'Madness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997', Diana Gittins notes that often women were admitted by their own family, sometimes as the result of bearing illegitimate children or as they had been subjected to rape. As they would not always (or were unable to) carry out daily tasks, they were considered to be "mad" and some were even subjected these procedures.
More hell on earth here.
I've tried to ignore it for a really long time..
but I think it's time I acknowledge it.
I am peeing my pants with excitement that there might be an Arrested Development movie.
Eep
but I think it's time I acknowledge it.
I am peeing my pants with excitement that there might be an Arrested Development movie.
Eep
The Olympics are alright, gives me something to watch, but I think I just fell in love with the Swedish Road Racing Silver medallist...
Emma Johansson.. I think I love you.
Emma Johansson.. I think I love you.
HOLY CRAP!
EPIC LIGHTNING STORM.
Lightning makes me wanna have really really hot sex, for some weird reason!
I want to be Andy from Every Time I Die!
Check this dude out!!!
I think I may have to take my beard growing fetish to it's logical conclusion..
Check this dude out!!!
I think I may have to take my beard growing fetish to it's logical conclusion..
Noone reads this but it's fun to pretend.
Just got back from Amsterdam, and summer has finally decided to show it's face. Yay!
Amsterdam is way prettier than I ever expected. It's too bad it was chocka full of loud annoying poms and American college kids getting high. In such an amazing city, it's a real shame that all people seem to go for is the weed and hookers!
And one of my lifes goals is complete. I finally saw an original Mike Giant piece.
Just about died when I saw it!
The man's a genius..
Oh and to end the blog..
If you're gonna go sightseeing in London... do it at 5.45am on a Sunday morning.
You'll have the place to yourself
Just got back from Amsterdam, and summer has finally decided to show it's face. Yay!
Amsterdam is way prettier than I ever expected. It's too bad it was chocka full of loud annoying poms and American college kids getting high. In such an amazing city, it's a real shame that all people seem to go for is the weed and hookers!
And one of my lifes goals is complete. I finally saw an original Mike Giant piece.
Just about died when I saw it!
The man's a genius..
Oh and to end the blog..
If you're gonna go sightseeing in London... do it at 5.45am on a Sunday morning.
You'll have the place to yourself
Yay. I get to go an explore New Zealand before I leave.
Going back to all the beautiful places we take for granted.
For all you non-kiwis, this is the places I love, that you should see.
I love my photos.
Going back to all the beautiful places we take for granted.
For all you non-kiwis, this is the places I love, that you should see.
I love my photos.
OMG. So I finally get to leave New Zealand.
Christchurch - Auckland - San Francisco - Munich - London. April 24th 2008.
Anybody from any of these cities that wanna hang, hit me up. I want adventures.
Christchurch - Auckland - San Francisco - Munich - London. April 24th 2008.
Anybody from any of these cities that wanna hang, hit me up. I want adventures.
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