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Knightsbridge Physchiatric Center…...........
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Breaking free of the bondage of self,to simply name the fears that cage one.Tear down these self built walls that confine us from our goals and aspirations. A simple conversation,two friends speaking somehow takes the power from it.Once they are spoken of and named they begin their slow spiral down.Keeping them inside and hidden only gives them power that grows and grows.Challenge the silence-that is their strength-speak it,only then does it dissipate,powerless,crawling away,back to where the silent demons die.This is the first day of all the rest-speak and live this day well. Photo taken at the Cottingley Institute for the Developmentally Disabled,Hospital Building,PT Wing?
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A single person dorm room in an abandoned mental asylum
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Another in my series of the Old General Hospital. This is of the interior hallway leading into the bowels of the sinister and dark sanitorium. I didn’ t have a flashlight becasue this was spur of the moment. So I had to use my camera flash to illuminate the long dark hallways that have many rooms and other halls leading from this main corridor. I crept along hugging the wall working my way deeper into the dungeon like structure. My imagination was going wild as I visualized the scenes of countless horror movies and their macabre scenes. I could almost feel the horror of its previous occupants as the darkness enveloped me; yet I dared go a little further just to get that picture of what lay beyond… / / Visit my website On The Rock Photography /
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Dorm room,Cottingley Institute for the Developmentally Disabled…...........
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Knightsbridge Psychiatric,patient services bulding…......
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Even just looking back with the camera setup on the Altar you could see how fantastic this chapel would have looked, imagine it in its heyday with the pews still present and cloth still hanging in places around the walls etc, it would have been fantastic.
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In one of the wards a table stands at the end, set up almost as if someone was about to sit down to a meal before they left. This asylum was open from 1882 and closed finally in 1991, after a slow and gradual wind down. It was the third of three asylums in the area and was only ever built to be overflow for the other two, so its gradual close just meant the patients from here could be transferred back to the other two now that there were fewer numbers due to care in the community etc.
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photo taken at algonquin river state hospital. / more of my work is on www.abandonedamerica.org
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Unreal places to be hidden away.Reality and a dreamworld become one.Silently thinking thoughts of places known before this one.Terrors real and wondered about.Retreat back to your room,some solace here where you keep your things.Old pictures,tokens of a life lived before this place,some dignity.Not a dream though,this was real for so many inside these walls. / Going through this decay a guy with a camera sees this sad world.Bringing light to it for a moment his task at hand.Embraced by this strangely sad place he wonders about those that lived here,so many did.Children for the most part he knows from research.He hopes some got out intact, and now live happily somewhere. Cottingley Institute for the Developmentally Disabled.
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one chair survives a series of chair disasters.
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stairwell in an abandoned insane asylum.
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“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.” / James M. Barrie (1860 – 1937) Thanks to Melissa for ‘modelling’ :) —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / If you would like to purchase any of my art in a larger format, please contact me. Other works by Earthairfire:
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Now for those who don’t know… I play this instrument. / I used to be in bands and I still dabble nowadays. / I spent a few years as a child learning classical music and theory from Maltese Maestro Vincent Pulo. / My fav classical guitar composers are Mauro Guiliani and Andres Segovia. / This image was taken during the Aradale weekend. / The weekend was a huge success and I thouroughly enjoyed spending time with like-minded souls. / Massive thanks to the following for your muse, inspiration and collaboration… / Kara Rasmanis / Jenny Hall / John Robb / Matt Allan from Disenchanted / Melissa Kirkham / Jo O’Brien / James Price / Michael Alesich / Lucky Vegetable / khelltic / Bronwen Hyde / Karen / / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
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I’m haunting the hallways now.
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Part 1 of the “Herbivores Revenge” series. Concept I planned ages ago but had a little trouble getting Daisy her mask – eventually sourcing in Sydney. Special thanks also to the Butchered Butcher and OzUnderground for the makeup work.
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Thank you to my amazing Muse. Shot at the wonderful Aradale Mental Asylum. Copyright Scott James Prebble 2008
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MUCH BETTER VIEWED LARGER On a visit to Sydney in June 1867 Manning was invited by Henry Parkes to become medical superintendent of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum. Before accepting, Manning went overseas and studied methods of patient care and administration of asylums; on his return to Sydney he submitted a notable report. He was appointed to Tarban Creek on 15 October 1868 and immediately reported on the isolation of patients from their relations in accommodation best described as ‘prison-like and gloomy’, the inadequate facilities for their gainful employment and recreation and the monotonous diets deficient in both quantity and quality. In January 1869 the asylum’s name was changed to the Hospital for the Insane, Gladesville, wherein patients were to receive treatment rather than be confined in a ‘cemetery for diseased intellects’. By 1879 radical changes in patient care and accommodation had been made. Gladesville was extended and modernized and an asylum for imbeciles set up in Newcastle and a temporary asylum at Cooma. Manning minimized the use of restraint and provided for patient activities. The shot is the result of 5 bracketted images , equipment used Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm lens. The exposures processed using Photomatix with a light cleanup using Capture NX.
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MUCH BETTER VIEWED LARGER Before the close of 1850 many fundamental issues relating to the treatment of the mentally ill had been established and there was a determined effort to provide decent conditions. The history of The Rozelle Hospital provides a fascinating account of the development of a mental health service and the changing societal attitudes which accompany the care and treatment of the mentally ill. In 1873, due to severe overcrowding at the Hospital for the Insane at Gladesville, the Parkes Government purchased the “Callan Estates” (then a rural setting) of just over 100 acres for £12,500; with the express purpose of building a large lunatic asylum. There was some opposition by local residents but this was rejected by the Goverment and in 1884 the new asylum for the insane at Callan Park was officially opened. The main group of stone buildings was named the Kirkbride Block and were described by the press of the day as a “magnificent pile of buildings, forming a conspicuous object of the locality and visible for many miles around”. A contract was awarded to Low and Kew for two hundred and fifty thousand pounds to build the asylum. Building started on 23 April, 1880 and by January 1885, the vast complex of buildings was completed. The buildings became known as the ‘Kirkbride Block’, named after the eminent American, Dr. William Kirkbride, who was renowned for his pioneering work and thoughts on progressive mental health care. Kirkbride’s concepts provided for a self-contained community, with a variety of wards designed to provide separate accommodation and activities to match the various stages of a patient’s illness and convalescence The hospital is located in picturesque parkland on the shores of Iron Cove Bay. Today these parklands are used by the local community for recreational and sporting events. A ‘Pleasure Garden’ for the patients was created in front of the Kirkbride Block. The surrounding 11 acres of ground were planted with mainly native trees and shrubs and landscaped by Mr. Charles Moore, Curator of the Botanic Gardens in the 1880s. For More Information On This Hospital http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/mhealth/rozelle/rozhistory.html
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I imagine taking a plunge in the tub here now would be a quite depressing experience, especially as the normal users would already have problems due to the fact this is at a derelict mental asylum. Hopefully when this place was clean and in use it was not quite as off putting for the patients.
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Fashion Design by Asylum In Red / Makeup by Kassy Gilmour / Model is Teese / Photography and Post by Fallen Rose Media / Shot at Old Petrie Town, North Brisbane. Comments are very much appreciated!
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One of the many huge corridors in an abandoned asylum. Featured in TUNNEL VISION 21st Nov, 2009 West Park Asylum (or West Park Hospital) was a large psychiatric hospital in Epsom, Surrey. The hospital was designed by William C. Clifford-Smith (architect to the London County Council), who was also involved in the design of nearby St Ebba’s Hospital. The hospital had been in planning since 1906, and by 1917 it was largely complete; however, the outbreak of war postponed opening until 1923. When complete the hospital could cater for around 2,000 patients of mixed class, and hence the site had extensive boiler houses and plant rooms, a large laundry and a substantial water tower. There were enormous kitchens located behind the canteen, and in turn this was behind the main hall/ballroom. However, the main hall suffered an arson attack on September 30th 2003 and is now a burnt out shell. The asylum also boasted its own railway but this was removed in 1950, and no trace remains except around the central engineering block. The main stores and sewing rooms were also located here, but other services, such as the mortuary and chapel, were located by the entrance road, along with two lodges for the matrons and a large manor for the superintendent. The hospital was slowly run down from the mid 1990s, and by 2003 most of the hospital was closed and derelict. A few outer ward buildings and villas remain open today and are still used for psychiatric treatment. As the hospital is largely derelict, it is of increasing interest to urban explorers who visit for the sheer size of the hospital, and also for many hospital items still in situ, such as beds, drugs, kitchen equipment and personal items. A padded cell is also of interest to explorers. The hospital was the last great London asylum, and the last of the Epsom Cluster, a group of 5 mental institutes (the others being Horton, Manor, Long Grove and St Ebba’s.) The asylum follows the compact arrow design, with external villas
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A cot in a childrens ward of an abandoned Lunatic Asylum :-( History / West Park Asylum (or West Park Hospital) was a large psychiatric hospital in Epsom, Surrey. The hospital was designed by William C. Clifford-Smith (architect to the London County Council), who was also involved in the design of nearby St Ebba’s Hospital. The hospital had been in planning since 1906, and by 1917 it was largely complete; however, the outbreak of war postponed opening until 1923. / When complete the hospital could cater for around 2,000 patients of mixed class, and hence the site had extensive boiler houses and plant rooms, a large laundry and a substantial water tower. There were enormous kitchens located behind the canteen, and in turn this was behind the main hall/ballroom. However, the main hall suffered an arson attack on September 30th 2003 and is now a burnt out shell. The asylum also boasted its own railway but this was removed in 1950, and no trace remains except around the central engineering block. The main stores and sewing rooms were also located here, but other services, such as the mortuary and chapel, were located by the entrance road, along with two lodges for the matrons and a large manor for the superintendent. / The hospital was slowly run down from the mid 1990s, and by 2003 most of the hospital was closed and derelict. A few outer ward buildings and villas remain open today and are still used for psychiatric treatment. As the hospital is largely derelict, it is of increasing interest to urban explorers who visit for the sheer size of the hospital, and also for many hospital items still in situ, such as beds, drugs, kitchen equipment and personal items. A padded cell is also of interest to explorers.
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Photo Manipulation Credit Rock Building Sky —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— IMPORTANT © COPYRIGHT NOTICE / The work contained in my gallery is copyrighted ©Asylum Witch. All rights reserved. My work may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in ANY WAY without my prior written permission. My work does not belong to the public domain. Copyright laws will be enforced. .
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