1952 Austin Sheerline Ambulance
by Theresa Tahara
Title
1952 Austin Sheerline Ambulance
Artist
Theresa Tahara
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The restored 1952 Austin Sheerline A125 ambulance from Tranquille in Kamloops, BC. Tranquille was the home of the massive King Edward VII Tuberculosis Sanatorium that was opened in the early 1900s and ran until the late 50s before becoming a mental facility for the next 25 years.
Containing over 40 buildings, including a fire hall, a cafeteria, a large scale laundromat, numerous large dormitories and three hospitals including the Old Main Hospital, the Sage Hospital and the Greaves Hospital it�s easy to see that this place was once a veritable city. You can also find a school, their own steam plant, a gymnasium, several caretaker buildings as well as numerous turn of the century abandoned homes on the property. Coupled with their own cemetery and a slew of farm and processing buildings still linked by serviceable roads all of it comes together to form Tranquille.
Most of the buildings have been abandoned now and are in a dilapidated state. Rumours of ghosts abound.
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October 9th, 2015
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