The Box
For over 100 years nurses wandered the miles of narrow hallways and claustrophobic wards trying to do the best they could to help those that inhabited the dark and disturbing mental institution.
Before making their rounds they would open up the registry key box, a fixture at the station for longer than anyone could remember.
Inside the box were the resident logs and keys needed to gain entry into the dank and dimly-lit lock down wards.
Having not been opened in over in over 75 years, and never seen by the public, it was uncovered in a building collapse 1993. It has been sold to a German collector.
This antique relic held all the patient registry logs, the 5 ward keys and, of course, room for whatever other little remnants of a dark time long forgotten by many and remembered (unfortunately) by
few.
List Of Items Found In The Box
| Keys: | for the wards 1-5 (the permanent patients) |
| Photos: |
a picture showing 3 females, names on back a picture showing the staff with names underneath |
| Bell: | a table bell with engraving inv# 751/1932 |
| Hair: | a lock of hair, source unkown, inside a piece of paper hidden inside the bell. |
|
Patient Registry Logs: |
register for 1934/35/36 with notes in pencil |
| Letter: | a letter addressed to the London Times - unmailed written by nurse Elnora Brown accusing one of the doctors of illegal experiements and patient abuse. It is highly probable the doctor started the fire to cover up evidence and to kill both, the patient and nurse Elnora Brown. For legal reasons we are not allowed by court order to disclose the doctor's name. |
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