Wednesday, 25 May 2011

St. Audry's Asylum Collection

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St. Audry's Asylum Collection , a set on Flickr.

A delightful surprise on a visit with the kids to Felixstowe museum - an amazing room dedicated to St. Audry's Lunatic Pauper Asylum: ECT machines; photographs of the hospital facilities - including the hairdressers; creepy paintings by patients; an even creepier painting of the main entrance - complete with ambulance delivering or taking away an inmate; a mortuary toolset.

Self-administering ECT
Painting of the main entrance to St. Audry's
Shrine to the Matron

2 comments:

Glimmung said...

Oh my word, this is great. Hope the ECT left you feeling invigorated ;)

Dr. Champagne said...

oh yes... ;)

Seriously it's an amazing collection. They also have a photo archive which they said i can take a look at next time iam down. A totally unexpected treat. I recently went up to St. Audry's - now a housing estate (see earlier post) so this was the perfect insight of what was and great material for a speculative what might be for the housing estate.

hope you're good Andrew!

Cheers
Andy