50 Comments Posted by kb

Hi expatbrummy don’t know if you remember any of the staff who worked at Maggies my dad, mom and stepmom all worked there in the 70s and 80s. We used to go to the social club. I remember the discos

Someone I know may or may not have been in this location very recently and though there are signs (mainly on the bottom floor and the workshop) that it has been used for other purposes, it is still largely abandoned. Looks like they intend to do some sort of car repair thing in the back but the main building looked very much like the photos in this album, even ten years later. Some of the offensive graffiti also seems to have been replaced, fortunately. The interesting thing is that even the remnants of more recent uses are creepy - rooms full of holiday decorations in boxes, dozens of penguins including one made to look real that at this point looks like something Edgar Allen Poe might have written about... huge bins of wrapping paper that has never been used, covered in dust, it almost looks like someone just took a whole house and moved everything in here and then left it for years. I'd be very interested to know the story behind the appearance of all this stuff and its subsequent abandonment.

Great shot.

I'm drawn to abandoned places, too, especially those out here in western PA. Your site is great!!

http://kristabrownlee....es/abandoned-places/

big mortuary, big soap dispenser! (ahh, somebody had to do it)

awesome ! and as usual, twug your writing just adds to the pic. you got some talent of your own

whew, i thought i was actualy gonna have to bring up the soap dispenser. cool shot

help me im melting!!!!!

i am a firm believer in preservation and i would never destroy anything out of curiosity, so the hinge thing is a fabuluose idea,but i would realy need to see whats in there. ill probably dream about it tonight

a lock and no handle? yup scares the hell outta me!

came in with vertigo and left with claustraphobia.

oh man i just wanna live here. hey motts what are those two buildins in the background?

oh ya, the view is incredible, motts ,I bow, again.

the shapes and angles are so wierd, like the designer kept forgetting his plan, something in it just feels amiss, conventional decorators might bitch about trying to decorate something like this. Id be in heaven if it was my room. and what is that thing under the window,? soap dispenser? cool! it matches the room.

cant feel it, something about it just feels like a non space

get over gettin over Lynne, her wisdom and insights to the mental health field are invaluable to a sight like this, her oh so subtle ways of conveying to people that theyre being freakin idiots, well thats just funny as hell