Here’s a great view of the ‘chair room’, although all the chairs have gone.
I like this view. The wooden conservatory looks a little dilapidated (but aren’t they all?) No, I like
the way the modern, perfect tiled roof[1] and the no-nonsense upper windows
(sensibly closed and perfect) contrast with the opened ground floor windows.
Another example of Cane Hill’s window merchant, some weird person who gets off on opening windows
and freaking the rest of us out.
[1] All the roofs at Cane Hill are well finished. No lose tiles. No holes.
newly fixed and well kept. The rest is going to rack and ruin, but the roofs are still as good as the day
they were laid. More evidence that the place is barmy. But...
"Although the roofs appear OK from outside, most of the buildings are severely
water damaged inside, especially the corridors. The two blocks round the back
with the lifts are of different construction (concrete floors and ceilings), and
have survived. I don't think there will be another building left with more than
one floor that you can walk on."
This is the end of the Olave/Queens ward. Directly behind it is the
Pucin/Paxton wards but without access to No. 2 Garden, there's no way
to photograph it.
See also: October 2002.
