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"I found your article in the Croydon wired Magazine about Cane Hill and was fascinated to see the pictures and read about it." "My Mother was a nurse there during the 1980's, I think that she worked on the female wards. She actually took me there
when I was about 10 to a Christmas Party! It was a bizarre experience to say the least. I remember walking for what seemed
like hours along tunnel like corridors with small slittly windows and finally arriving at a massive room painted pink full of
scary lunatics with Christmas hats on." "I walked past an elderly lady sat in an arm chair and she kicked me really hard in the shins!" "My Mum eventually resigned because she was involved in trying to get some of the patients ready to
live on the outside by teaching them about money. One day she sent them out with some money to buy food shopping for
a week after teaching them on what to get etc - It was a trial run. Anyway, they all came back with things like gloves,
and tea cosies and it broke my Mum's heart and she couldn't handle the responsibility." "There was always incidents in the corridors where she would have to call security because some massive
bloke was locking her in a phone booth or something else similar." Michelle
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