Query: What is the Bradgate Mental Health Unit like inside?

What is the Bradgate Mental Health unit like inside? Is it modern? It doesn't appear to be very 'homely'. Most units are less 'clinical looking' but I've heard that BMHU is lots of different 'wards'? and that it looks just like a hospital inside, unlike other units? Is this true? Like are the beds hospital beds? Are there any single rooms? and apart from the bedrooms, what other rooms are available to patients to utilise? Thank you

Anonymous, Sept  2nd,  2014 (on Tumblr)

Hi, Sorry for the delay. I’ll try to put together some pictures taken over the last few years. Basically there’s older wards which have a mixture of single rooms and dormitories and then there’s some very new wards where patients get their own rooms with en-suite loos and shower. The newer wards have more small lounges for special activities, whereas the older wards have one dining area and lounge which doubles as a TV room through which can be accessed a kitchen for making hot drinks. The older wards have toilets and showers which are shared. Every now and then they redecorate the wards, but the older wards seem very institutional. The dorms aren’t like the bays with beds in normal hospital, it’s quite literally just a room with four beds in (no nurses’ station).
I’ll ask J if we can use her couple of her photos of her room on the newer ward, and we can compare them with the rather stark and functional environs in the odd picture I’ve been able to take. The main experience of a ward can often be down the the personalities of staff and patients. I’ll try to post some pics and diagrams sometime.