Aaron English
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- Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
- Name
- Christian (Otto) Beyer
Ah go on - give us all the background please.
- Location
- Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
- Name
- Christian (Otto) Beyer
This was Henryton Hospital, in Maryland. An asylum for people afflicted with tuberculosis. But then it became an asylum for people with a variety of, little understood, mental conditions. They were all released in the 1980s under Reagan. Most should not have been there
My wife worked there as a life guard while in high school, in the seventies.
Now it has all been razed
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Built for the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 the Ministry of Labour didn;t make the move (Employees complained about the distance, too costly to move the furniture - or buy new) the building was donated to a Monastery of Athos Mountain in exchange of a public lake that was given to the Monastery by an 8th century AD Byzantine Emperor!!
The Minister was accused for scandal/corruption went to trial but not convicted and the owner of the building is unknown now. Meanwhile the building is stripped off of everything usable by looters....
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- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
We had quite a few of these here, too, Otto.
I did my practical work for one subject in my psychology degree (Psychopathology of Deviant Behaviour) at one such. Quite a number of people had been there all their adult life, and no one actually knew what was wrong with them, due to destruction of old records by a fire, IIRC. However, they had become well and truly institutionalized, and it would have been cruel to turn them out into the unprotected world.
It only took about six weeks for me to start feeling like this when I had my two lots of brain surgery last year. It's an awful feeling!
Good for her! It's an often thankless task.
I have mixed feelings about this.
There are some people who really do need to be protected from the world.
I'm not talking about the criminally insane, where the world needs protecting from them.
- Location
- Cheshire, England
- Name
- Martin Connolly
I know I have posted these photos elsewhere already, but it seems rude not to add them on this thread.
The deserted hotel Atalanta del Mar on Lanzarote.
The deserted hotel Atalanta del Mar on Lanzarote.
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Sort of reminds me of that hotel in the film Carry on Abroad (in a place called Ells Bells from memory).
Panolyman
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- Location
- Wild West Wales
- Name
- Brian
This was the Roch Gate Motel which served the area for around thirty years until closure some twenty years ago.
It used to hold "discos" on a Thursday night in the seventies and bus loads of people came from all over the county to dance the night away.
It's been an eye-sore ever since but a local businessman / farmer has submitted plans to demolish it, build a new centre housing small enterprises, a village shop and post office (to replace one closed down last year) and cafe and meeting room. In addition he wants to provide some static caravans to generate income and boost the local tourist industry. Every single person in the village is backing him, but for some reason the local authority keep knocking him back.
It used to hold "discos" on a Thursday night in the seventies and bus loads of people came from all over the county to dance the night away.
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It's been an eye-sore ever since but a local businessman / farmer has submitted plans to demolish it, build a new centre housing small enterprises, a village shop and post office (to replace one closed down last year) and cafe and meeting room. In addition he wants to provide some static caravans to generate income and boost the local tourist industry. Every single person in the village is backing him, but for some reason the local authority keep knocking him back.
- Location
- Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
- Name
- Christian (Otto) Beyer
Hmm. Don't know if Roch (sp) is a great name for a hotel. 😉
Panolyman
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- Location
- Wild West Wales
- Name
- Brian
I've spent the last two hours racking my brain re your comment.
Sweet, innocent moi couldn't get my head around it, thinking you must be comparing my home village to a cockroach heaven.
Then I twigged (I think)..........it was only earlier this year when reading an American novel that the term for a joint / spliff (?) came into my vocabulary. 🙄
We really are naive people. We took a friend to Cardiff a couple of days ago and on leaving the lift (elevator) my wife commented on an unusual smell.
Our friend then informed us that her son's neighbour has been raided a few times, having been over the influence of his 'wacky-baccy'.
Irene McC
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- Location
- CPT, South Africa
- Location
- Salish Sea
We too have a Roche Harbor (pron. roach) with hotel. Named after a Lt. Steven Roche. The relators and incomers are trying to tart it up by using a french pronunciation (row..ssh) 🙄
Panolyman
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- Location
- Wild West Wales
- Name
- Brian
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- Location
- Scott Depot, WV, USA
- Name
- Tony
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My wife and I spent some time this afternoon driving around some very remote roads in a nearby rural county. Beautiful scenery, and we were also surprised by the number of modern and quite nice houses with large immaculate yards we saw, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. This was not one of them!
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