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From Malcolm at 2008-01-21 19:09:19 : By the 1970s these were small offices on the new block corredor (Denton/Clifton/Langbar/Beamsley. The door at the far end led onto the main corredor & the prefab chapel enterance was just to the left through the door at the end. This was an equivelent corredor to the ones on the old blocks (Haws/Aysgarth + Asquith etc) & to my knowledge rooms on the access corredors were not seclusion rooms - the old side rooms/seclusion rooms (traps) were on the main wards - often at the bottom end.
From silverstealth at 2008-01-23 23:21:13 : Hi again Malcolm, were these ever used as seclusion rooms. The same stubby corridor just off stainton has similar rooms as I guess most of the wards did. The ones at stainton, marrick are fire damaged, I heard that an ex patient set fire to them in 2003. would you know if that was true.
From Alan at 2009-05-10 02:42:33 : As an ex patient on Marrick I'm aware that similar such rooms (in the Corridor leading up to the main hospital one) were used as the Occupational Therapists office and the other was used as a meeting room. The seclusion room on Marrick was along with all the bedrooms at the dormitory end and had lining on the wall. I guess in years gone by many of the rooms will have been built for a specific purpose which later changed. These doors are clearly hinged in such a manner to prevent someone barricading themselves in the room - although they do not look very strong and have no observation windows present.