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to think this is not right

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charleneanna · 26/01/2012 20:02

ok my friend is a 20 year old single parent with a baby she is or was quiet happy in her flat until the other day, we were at hers and we heard some noise so we looked out of her window and the shop underneath her that had been empty for some time was open and a couple of freezers were being taken in so i said well maybe its gonna be a frozen food shop that would be brilliant but then yesterday the sign went up above the shop omg atwells after life its a bloody funeral directors now dont get me wrong they are needed but surely not a shop below a flat in a residential area my friend is now that terrified at going to bed above dead bodies that she has begged me to let her and baby spend the night at my house but my house is already overflowing sorry but this is notnright

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GypsyMoth · 28/01/2012 10:22

MrsDVere.....did you ever find out what happened to that little hospital chapel? The one you used to sit in.....( from the urban exploration thread)

Proudnscary · 28/01/2012 10:36

This thread is dead funny, wish I'd found it earlier when I needed a laugh!

OP is a loon.

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 28/01/2012 10:38

Its still there ILove. Stranded on its own in a sea of rubble.

I 'visit' when I can. Its not far off Oxford st so if I am up that way I look though the viewing window and feel sad.

All that history! All that humanity. Just sat there waiting for someone to think its worth building on that land.

Then it will probably become someone's feature bathroom Sad

I worry the longer it is left the more it will deteriorate and then they will say its ok to pull it down.
Bad enough to pull the beautiful hosptial down.

GypsyMoth · 28/01/2012 10:41

I nearly went for a look few months back when we were visiting uni's. Will def look next time I'm in London, next month hopefully! I looked at it on streetview. Such a shame.

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 28/01/2012 11:29

I have some photos of the inside. My bloody camera run out of batteries when I visited Angry

I will put them on my profile later if I remember.
I have a great one of the lectern.

But for me it was just the whole feel of the place. It had been there so long, was right opposite the theatres.
The first AIDS ward was at the middlesex
The childrens oncology ward was there.

Imagine all the longing in those walls.

TBH the decoration was a bit mad. Loads of gold and tiles. Lots of plaques dedicated to staff who had died.

TheBigJessie · 28/01/2012 11:29

Well, lots of people feel fearful about that kind of thing.

I don't know if i believe in ghosts. On balance, i don't think I do. But if they do exist, they don't haunt funeral parlours. They might haunt where they died, or where they used to live, but no-one has ever claimed they haunt the undertakers.

All the deceased who pass through that undertakers are going to be laid to rest, so they certainly won't be haunting anyone over`that. I understand that's said to be a reason for haunting.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/01/2012 11:41

My DC were born in a local hospital which has now closed down.When DD was a day old she had to go to SCBU to have a canula put in.
The tiles on the walls, dedicated to babies who were born there, some of them died the same day, or just days later. Some of them a scant couple of pounds in weight.
My DD was a hefty 8lb7.5 oz, so it was a sobering experience for me, and I felt guilty for being there with my healthy DD Sad.
(She was there because the staff in SCBU were expert in cannulas, we were in a side room)

I often wonder what happened to those little wall tiles, if the parents were offered them?

TheBigJessie · 28/01/2012 11:42

Does your friend have a religion?

Could she talk to a religious figure of her faith? Vicar, priest, imam, etc? Ask them to perform a blessing of her flat?

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/01/2012 11:45

The OP hasn't been back of late to update?

GypsyMoth · 28/01/2012 11:51

Has the hospital been demolished 70

I have a mad interest in old buildings, there are forums dedicated to photographing them. Trying to capture the atmosphere and decay.

Mrsdv chapel is the hospital chapel.....just that left, the old hospital long since demolished. Nobody seems to know what to do with it, so it stands in the middle of a building site!!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/01/2012 11:56

Not demolished last time I went by (about 18 months ago) but they are building houses there. So possibly by now it's gone.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/01/2012 11:57

Is Mrsdv chapel a listed or protected building?

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 28/01/2012 12:22

A little Saturday night viewing

Archemedes · 28/01/2012 12:27

Does she have any form of SN?

other than that I'd probably tell her to man up tbh, what example is she setting to her child.

rainbowinthesky · 28/01/2012 12:37

Nearly spat my drink on my laptop at this thread several times. Got to be a classic. Honestly, do grown ups really get scard at this type of thing.

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 28/01/2012 14:19

Yes 70 it is protected. I think it has quite a high listing (I dont know how these things work) because when I expressed my concern to the people who bought the site (Candy and Candy) they said they could never knock it down.
They were very sweet and let me have a last look at the hospital and chapel before they demolished the building.

I thought they were going to convert the hosptial and was amazed when they pulled it all down. What a waste! All those beautiful bricks and tiles.

Not all of the hosptial was beautiful of course but lots of it was if you looked hard enough. The entrance was all panelled and had the most incredible huge paintings by Fredrick Caley-Robinson [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/frederick-cayley-robinson-acts-of-mercy]

When I went to visit the place was all dusty and being pulled apart. There was a blackboard with a list of filming that had gone on/was due to go on - various tv shows and films needing a bit of spooking hospital footage.

The paintings were still up because the buyers had not realised what important works they were. Luckily they were protected with UPVC covers. They were just about to move them.

I think they are now in the Welcome exhibition. I would like to see them again but not sure if I could bear it. They bring back such difficult memories but also feelings of hope.

LindyHemming · 28/01/2012 21:46

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 28/01/2012 21:57

My friend lives over 'De'aths Bakery'. Maybe she could give your friend some pointers!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/01/2012 23:42

Wasn't there a sitcom back in the 70's with Thora Hird and her son who ran a Funeral Parlour? "In Loving Memory" IIRC.

Maybe the OPs 'friend' has given up her flat to a strange mother and son tied-to-the-apron-strings combo who are living above the shop and quite literally taking their work home with them??

IvantaOuiOui · 29/01/2012 00:07

My first job was working in the office of some gravediggers. The dead didn't bother me, but I was always worried that I'd write down the wrong coffin measurements for the burial plot. We did get a few odd pervs ringing up. Great job for a teenage goth, it was.

YourCallIsImportant · 29/01/2012 00:17

This thread has made my weekend. Grin Where else can you get garlic, baseball bats, chest freezers, vampires, zombies, kebab shops, knocking shops, betting shops and Patrick Swayze all mentioned in the same thread?

My favourite comment has to be this one from ComposHat:

"On a lighter note, embalming fluid is very good for keeping flies off my great granddad [used yo use it] in summer."

GrinGrinGrin

Could be a Classic IMHO

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 29/01/2012 00:26

Methinks the OP has flounced.
But there's only so many times I can put up with being called a "sarcastic twat"

I've been insulted by far cleverer, far better and far more literate people than you, charlene. (Said in Boycie from Only Fools and Horse voice.)
Yes, I know that was Mar---lene ! Grin

puddinghead · 29/01/2012 00:26

Tell your friend, 'OMG it's gonna be quiet at least OMG'. But wait, no, the dead bodies might get up in the night and shimmy up through the floor boards. OMG!!!

duckdodgers · 29/01/2012 00:30

70 are you still in Glasgow, was it Rottenrow?

Just curious.Smile