TheAuthority Posted February 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2023 9 hours ago, Xela said: It was Highcroft in North Brum. It even looked scary. My mom and dad would always say "I'll end up in Barnsley Hall" I thought it was just another name for mental hospital not a specific one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted February 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2023 9 hours ago, sidcow said: You can see that from The Holte End car park. 8 spent ages on Google Maps one evening trying to find out what it was. You can buy an apartment in there now. Buy an apartment in a creepy old mental hospital? Nope. Double nope. Eight shades of nope. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted February 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) On 09/04/2022 at 22:56, Xela said: Spent many a Thursday, Friday and Saturday night there! Circo bar first then over to the Dome. All got a bit shit towards the end though. Remember when a kid drove into the people queueing outside? A bouncer was killed. Don’t forget the GaryOwen Edited February 24, 2023 by Follyfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2023 7 hours ago, mjmooney said: What with 'care in the community', many old psychiatric hospitals have been redeveloped as housing. I think they should give them addresses along the lines of: Paranoia House, 22b Schizophrenia Terrace, The Old Lunatic Asylum, Menston. That would be insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 10 hours ago, HKP90 said: Buy an apartment in a creepy old mental hospital? Nope. Double nope. Eight shades of nope. I've seen too many episodes of 'Supernatural' to consider that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 20 hours ago, Xela said: It was Highcroft in North Brum. It even looked scary. I used to live there with a Ex GF, bought it when it was first built, an I shit you not, the first week I was living there, I thought I saw a guy in a wheel chair coming down my hallway from the front door. The lights were not on, it was late, dark, I never really thought anything of it. Then someone told me the history of the place, an I remember having a shiver, realised it could have been real. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted February 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2023 27 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: I used to live there with a Ex GF, bought it when it was first built, an I shit you not, the first week I was living there, I thought I saw a guy in a wheel chair coming down my hallway from the front door. The lights were not on, it was late, dark, I never really thought anything of it. Then someone told me the history of the place, an I remember having a shiver, realised it could have been real. Why the everloving hell would you not think anything of a man in a wheelchair inside your apartment. I'd have been in the travelodge down the road in about 5 minutes, and stayed there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 51 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: I thought I saw a guy in a wheel chair coming down my hallway from the front door. It wasn't me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 58 minutes ago, HKP90 said: Why the everloving hell would you not think anything of a man in a wheelchair inside your apartment. I'd have been in the travelodge down the road in about 5 minutes, and stayed there. I can't remember whether I was a couple of beers up at the time. Also you sometimes see strange things in the dark, patterns, people, but realise it's nothing. Strange that I never experienced it again I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 I remember I had to go to kitchen late at night and didn't feel like switching on loads of lights so just put my headlamp on and used that to light up the dark house. Whilst I was making drink using headlamp to see kettle I thought to myself if someone walked past the window now and saw me inside like this they might think that I'm a burglar and just as I was having that thought by what seemed like some incredible coincident, especially as it was the dead of night someone walked past window with an headlamp on, I paniced in that moment and quickly ducked, obvously because I'd just been associating headlamp with a burglar when I saw one go past the window in that split second it gave me a fright, but then I heard a clink of glass and some whistling, the clink of glass made me realise it was just the milkman, so I got up again, but took off headlamp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 27 minutes ago, useless said: I remember I had to go to kitchen late at night and didn't feel like switching on loads of lights so just put my headlamp on and used that to light up the dark house. Whilst I was making drink using headlamp to see kettle I thought to myself if someone walked past the window now and saw me inside like this they might think that I'm a burglar and just as I was having that thought by what seemed like some incredible coincident, especially as it was the dead of night someone walked past window with an headlamp on, I paniced in that moment and quickly ducked, obvously because I'd just been associating headlamp with a burglar when I saw one go past the window in that split second it gave me a fright, but then I heard a clink of glass and some whistling, the clink of glass made me realise it was just the milkman, so I got up again, but took off headlamp. You either drive to your kitchen, or you mean torch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 I've just googled headlamp and I mean headlamp. I used to wear one to read at night, as if reading at night before going to sleep, it's easier to just switch off, rather than having to walk across room to turn main light off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 29, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2023 15 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: You either drive to your kitchen, or you mean torch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 I use a headlamp when I walk the dog at night. Not sure what else to call it. The headlamp, not the dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 On 30/03/2023 at 06:46, Seat68 said: I use a headlamp when I walk the dog at night. Most people use a lead. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2023 I'd call it a head torch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 (edited) Sorry I edited out this memory as I don't think I explained it very well I will try and think of another memory or delete post. Edited April 9, 2023 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Got some old Big Breakfast clips recommended to me on YouTube. Makes me nostalgic for a time when life was more fun. Is it me, or does everyone take themselves too seriously now? I know he is a divisive character, but Vaughan was excellent as a host. Cox lovely as well. I guess this around 97 or 98? I always used to watch a bit of BB before I went to college / work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 13, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 13, 2023 St. Margaret's in Great Barr is another mental institution that became a housing development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 13, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 13, 2023 12 minutes ago, Chindie said: St. Margaret's in Great Barr is another mental institution that became a housing development. And Monyhull in Kings Norton/Heath. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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