Creepy Cumbrian clinic (pics)

[Leaferne]

Find an old phone book--the local library should have them--and look in the yellow pages under Salons or whatever and see if you can find a hit on that address.

 

[Prof_Pretorius]

Thus spake zahir10

everyone sees or imagines something different, relating to their own personal fears (or desires!)

Precisely!!!
You have stumbled across a Fortean Rorshach !! Everyone sees something different, which really reveals what's inside their, erm, minds (?) Just to note I thought about a Mel Gibson movie, which now that I type this for all to see, is, ahh, hmmm, shall we say, a slight bit odd ...

 

[TheMany]

Greetings from The Many.

The electronic machine that has the long hose attached to it (the end of which the man in the picutre is hold) is in fact an electronic massage machine, possibly a percussion massage machine from the 70's.

A more up to date example of this equipment can be seen on the below web sites:

http://www.therapy2000.com/Gee-massager.htm
http://medmallonline.com/product_info.php?products_id=1172

I would seem that people would lay face down on the "couch" while they have their back massaged.

The reader should also note, that in the picture which shows the machine, at the base of the machine their is a "tray". In this tray is a black attachment, which has nobbles on it, and has been likened to a "distributor cap". This is in fact a massaging head, and would go onto the end of the hose being held by the man in the second picture.

I hope my explaination makes sense!

Regards,

The Many

 

[Hoketil]

bigphoot1, Lol, i can imagine Hillary Bris running this as some sort of side line! prof_pretorius, interesting Rorschach point. I suppose this gives an example of how every unusual event or unknown location can be interpreted differently from a number of different perspectives. Can't get the 'League of Gentleman' theme out of my head tough.

 

[Bigphoot2]

Another thought that struck me is that you stumbled on the set of some amateur video. There may be a bunch of teenagers up that way who think they have the next Blair Witch Project on their hands.

 

[Iamroachford]

If Withnail & I had arrived in that place instead of Penrith, who knows how the film would have panned out...

'We're not from London you know, we want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now, oooh and a go on that macabre looking gadgetry you have over there' !!!

 

[citizencane]

I agree with the massage machine being just that.
Also the other box with the knobs labled "pulse" and the other settings is also familiar to me especially with the round flat pads on the ends of wires coming from it. That looks to be an electrostim or "tens" box that is used in physical therapy , as is the massager. I have been in physical therapy for years and this looks to be a therapy table, sans cushion pad, the lamp is probably there to read by since it's pretty boring to undergo and many people will read during their therapy sessions. Or possibly an IR heatlamp for stiff muscles.
The moms day card probably belonged to the therapist who ran the machines.
Anyway, thats my theory.

 

[TheMany]

Even though it is a therapy/clinic set up... I expect the customers were Yeti, Greys, etc etc

 

[citizencane]

I agree! even the fortean beings get old,injured ect. and must seek care some place. This place was probably found out and had to be scrapped and they moved to another location more secretive and harder to find.
Um,yes.

 

[Philo_T]

I shudder to imagine what a yeti beauty parlour would look like.

Praise Bob!

 

[binotaur]

Beauty is only skin deep...

I'm from Windermere and none of this surprises me. Most folk have got esoteric '60's machinery hidden in their loft. Life with 12 fingers and a vestigial tail can be rough. Why CAN'T I look nice like everyone else?

 

[Boulters_Canary1]

Even though it is a therapy/clinic set up... I expect the customers were Yeti, Greys, etc etc

I'm thinking 'set for a porn film'.

But then I've got a dirty mind.

 

[Naughty_Felid]

It goes to show how difficult it is to figure things out. This equipment is only a few years old in relation to us and we can't work out what it does. Imagine a future civilization hundred or thousands of years in the future trying to figure out what this stuff is?

Good call on the physical therapy.