Yes, Folks, This Is Where I Work ....

[debris4spike]

As I have Fridays off work, I decided to try and keep my focus, so decided to go for a walk, complete with camera.  So I went for a walk around the outside of the hospital I work at.  The main building was opened in 1992, however as you can see here, if you want that it's history dates back to 1743

Anway, here is a stroll around the outside of The

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[kazzy_cee]

Some interesting architecture there.

[debris4spike]

The original building was done in the 70's and had to be taken down due to concrete cancer.

That medical school is certainly "odd" inside, as well as out.

[curiouswombat]

as the building is very long, and built on a slight hill

This made me smile - it seems to be some law of nature that hospitals are always built on hills. I can imagine someone drawing up a design for a new one and the planners saying "But this is all flat land - have you considered forming a couple of artificial mounds?"

When they opened our new one in 2003 they have actually managed to keep access to the wards and clinics all on a pair of totally flat corridors - but you go up sloping corridors to the kitchens, stores, morgue and so on.

It means that visitors should never need to use the slopes but they do get lost sometimes; perhaps subconsciously everyone expects to go up and down in a hospital and so they presume they need to go along the sloping corridor :)

[debris4spike]

LOL - so many people moan about the RD&E as it is so long. They expect it to be taller and shorter ... however in Exeter no buildings within 2 miles are allowed to be taller than the cathedral. Silly though as being mostly along one (well 2 as on 2 floors) long corridor, in theory, you can't get lost!