Deva Memories

It is amazing what you can find on the Internet when you are mooching around trying to keep awake! I remember this corridor very well from my student nurse days way, way back in 1983! The corridor linked several of the "back" wards to the main hospital, and was one of a whole spider's web of enclosed tunnels that made up the old Deva asylum just outside of Chester.
When I was a student the hospital was in its death throes. The push for total community care was just beginning to come into vogue, and the psychiatric care of the aging long stay patients although certainly old fashioned was I remember, always very professional yet based in tradition and habit.
I always thought, however, that no matter how much your tried to look at it, the hospital always looked Gothic,foreboding and at times totally terrifying!....