The BEFORE and AFTER Thread

[neill]

Before - May1966 Bob Dylan's Album Cover 'No Direction Home', you can just see the first Severn Bridge under construction.

After - May 2009

Thanks, N.

 

[Richard Davies]

Not taken by me, but is where my flat is:

There is a full set of these here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/allengleave/sets/1526048/

 

[Black Shuck]

Not taken by me, but is where my flat is:

There is a full set of these here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/allengleave/sets/1526048/

What sort of Fiat do you drive Rich?

 

[silverstealth]

Whittingham.
Before

What an outstanding image.​

 

[Big_g]

This is what i love.Seeing what it was like when in use and now many years later.Some amazing pictures people

 

[sheepie]

Just seen bradford works aberdeen in this thread used to live next to it, been in brought back some ace memories,

 

[Richard Davies]

I'm slightly surprised at some of the pictures of older mental hospitals when they were open.

They seem to look a bit more comfortable looking than I would expect, as they have been discribed as being more like prisons than hospitals.

 

[Pete]

Napsbury (West Hospital) administration, before WWI

Before closure, 1998

Pre-redevelopment, 2004

Post-redevelopment, 2008

Napsbury- Laburnum and Juniper wards, 2004

Laburnum and Juniper wards, 2008

Napsbury - Nurse's home (west), 2004

Nurses home (west), 2008

Fairfield administration, 2004

Administration, 2004

Fairfield male wing 2004

Male wing, 2008

Highlands General hospital, Winchmore Hill, administration and services block before closure 1994

Post redevelopment, 2005

Highlands, general view with theatres (left) and former casualty dept. (right), 1994

similar view, 2005

Highlands, Pavilion No.17, 1994

Pavilion No.17 now flats, 2005

This hobby starts to make me feel old when i notice i have taken comparison shots over a decade apart.
Pete

 

[silverstealth]

I'm slightly surprised at some of the pictures of older mental hospitals when they were open.

They seem to look a bit more comfortable looking than I would expect, as they have been discribed as being more like prisons than hospitals.

Your absolutely right, they look like comfortable hotels in many old photos but remember these were staged shots pre arranged weeks before so you are only seeing exactly what they want you to see.

The business end away from the cameras would have been a different thing altogether although much improved over the workhouses and some disreputable private madhouses where treatment and accomodation was based on containment not cure, for example one woman admitted to the Wakefield Asylum had spent 36 years chained up in the cellar of the local workhouse.

 

[FieldyM]

one woman admitted to the Wakefield Asylum had spent 36 years chained up in the cellar of the local workhouse.

Thats terible!

What a waste!






A woman is much more useful chained to the kitchen sink!

 

[RichardB]

I'm slightly surprised at some of the pictures of older mental hospitals when they were open.

They seem to look a bit more comfortable looking than I would expect, as they have been discribed as being more like prisons than hospitals.

Your absolutely right, they look like comfortable hotels in many old photos but remember these were staged shots pre arranged weeks before so you are only seeing exactly what they want you to see.

The business end away from the cameras would have been a different thing altogether although much improved over the workhouses and some disreputable private madhouses where treatment and accomodation was based on containment not cure, for example one woman admitted to the Wakefield Asylum had spent 36 years chained up in the cellar of the local workhouse.

I suspect the truth was somewhere in between in most cases.

 

[Urban Mole]

The thread seems to have died off, come on guys and gals, get some more before and after shots up, this was a great thread

 

[tbkscott]

Great to see pics like that, think those Bradford ones from SilverStealth are amazing.

 

[Raz333]

Here's one from Malaysia.

This lovely old house in Malacca was once owned by a Scotsman, Aden Mcleod,
a planting advisor to Sime Darby & Co. During the Japanese invasion in 1942
he was captured and sent to Thailand. In just 9 short months as a POW he was
to loose his life to dysentery in November of the same year.

c.1935
Source :http://www.malayanvolunteersgroup.org.uk/

2009
Today Aden's house still stands and is a Bistro that's fallen on hard times.

 

[LiamCH]

Wow! The building has hardly changed in over seventy years! I wonder if the interior had been redecorated...

 

[Raz333]

I think the interior is largely in its original form.

One of Mcleod's daughters did a return visit sometime in the 90's, she said that
bathroom and plumbing that was shipped all the way over from the UK and installed
by Mcleod himself was still in there.

 

[Random]

Sorry this isn't very well staged, but the undergrowth is such that you wouldn't be able to see from the original viewpoint.

Milkbank house, near Lockerbie, in 1938

Same, a couple of years ago

 

[Black Shuck]

Excellent shots love the Black and white.

 

[Urban Ghost]

Excellent stuff here, keep 'em coming!!!!

 

[simaving]

What an outstanding image.​

I agree absolutely brilliant image there