Ive Been Prison Again Today

[nailit]

Strange feeling going back to somewhere where you were once incarcerated.
Been here a few times (last time 2002). Its now a 'tourist attraction-museum piece.
Borrowed a car today and took my son and a couple of friends. Nice feeling to walk in with the knowledge that you can walk out again...

[nailit]

BTW, Its Shrewsbury prison AKA The Dana.
(and this is not my vid)

[237SJ]

I have just been staying with a friend who was a psychi nurse on a lock up ward in a what was then called a "mental home" She went back there when the building was being turned into flats and she felt very strange when she walked through the doors.

[murraymints]

most haunted did a special there ..it was a very scary place !

[Tilly2]

Are you enjoying the fresh air then, Nailit?

[Samuraisan]

Gosh 237, I don't think I would like to live in a flat that used be part of a mental hospital. Must be some strange auras.

[237SJ]

Sam - that is what I would have thought. She applied for a job at Broadmoor and a charter airline and she got the airline job so not much change there :)

[murraymints]

there's a jail somewhere south..can't remember where ..now a hotel ..have kept the doors ..landings with safety nets etc..not my kind of restful night

[nailit]

//Are you enjoying the fresh air then, Nailit?//
Funny thing Tills, going back in there today, it smelt musty and old, it had been shut for a few years before these people opened it up again
http://www.jailhousetours.com/prison-tours
My own memory is the overwhelming smell of disinfectant and food when you get up on the wing.

[DTCwordfan]

why would you want to go back?

[nailit]

//why would you want to go back? //
To be honest I wasn't in any rush to go back but WAS curious to see the parts that I never got the chance to see, eg, the hanging cell etc.
It was more the case that my son and my mates were curious.
Still a bit strange tho to see where you were once 'locked up' but was now free to look around at will.

[nailit]

If someone can show me the way to Butlins (or any other holiday camp) id appreciate it. I seem to have missed it. Perhaps I took a wrong turn.