A bad omen?

[camo]

So later this afternoon I'm off to view an apartment which I may move into at the end of this month. It's an old hospital built by Sir Titus Salt in the birthplace of the industrial revolution-Saltaire.
So far so pretty. The idea of it being built in a hospital is kinda creepy but I'm old enough to care little about the paranormal and superstition so i went ahead and made the appointment yesterday.

They little just rang me to confirm the appointment:
2:00pm Apartment 6, 66 Victoria Road. Yikes :eek:

[na§tee]

pft, hospitals. amateur! my mum lives in a former mental hospital converted into flats. i shit you not.
my brother and i enjoyed scaring her with images of victorian crazy ladies giving birth in a wild fit whilst chained into stirrups.

[trailerprincess]

If my buyers want to move in before I have found a new place then I shall probably rent a place in a converted hospital, or as it was originally and rather un-pc-like called 'The Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots' (actually what they meant in those days was learning disabilities)

'For several decades two of the Queen Mother's nieces, Katherine Bowes-Lyon and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, were kept there without visits from the Royal Family and were declared dead by Buckingham Palace in an intentional fabrication.' :eek:

But they are rather nice conversions *dreams of the private gym and pool*

[a.k.a me]

Was it an alternate hospital?

[camo]

well I can imagine some gruesome industrial accidents being treated there. Arms torn off in bobbins and such.

Still, I'm more worried about the 666 bit.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Apartment 6, 66 Victoria Road. Yikes :eek:

Hehehe ooooh spooky! I love that kind of stuff

pft, hospitals. amateur! my mum lives in a former mental hospital converted into flats. i shit you not.
my brother and i enjoyed scaring her with images of victorian crazy ladies giving birth in a wild fit whilst chained into stirrups.

:D

If my buyers want to move in before I have found a new place then I shall probably rent a place in a converted hospital, or as it was originally and rather un-pc-like called 'The Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots' (actually what they meant in those days was learning disabilities)


I work at a Mental Health establishment that was built in 1928 and called something very similar - 'St Catherine's Institution for the Insane', i believe it was.

It's a beautiful building though, and rather spooky at night.

[camo]

False alarm.

The apartment was really cold inside. Not in actual temp, but how lifeless it was. Plus it was taller than it was wide and I hate those kinda buildings - they make me feel like I'm really short (n)

[trailerprincess]

Booooo! Are you looking at any more (less creepy) places?

I think I have found a house I really like. Typically it's the most expensive one I have seen and about 30k more than the (mental) limit I had set for myself, rather than actual budget limit. I don't know what to doooooo!

[camo]

Booooo! Are you looking at any more (less creepy) places?

I think I have found a house I really like. Typically it's the most expensive one I have seen and about 30k more than the (mental) limit I had set for myself, rather than actual budget limit. I don't know what to doooooo!

Yeah, the application for some new flats finally came through the other day for this place. (http://www.magellanresidential.co.uk/Developments/KassapiansBaildon/Introduction.aspx)

I'm trying to buy one but each flat has roughly 50-60 people interested in them.

They're quite expensive for the size of the place but the finish is really nice (y)