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whoa! i never have seen i circular window before in my life!

this is like totally freaky you guys. i mean oh my god! this totally gives me the sceeby jeebies! lol.

i adore this picture!

i think we should all meet in one certain room the night of halloween

What a fantastic post. Applause indeed!

Lynne, you have done much to educate me and other visitors to this site, to help remedy exactly the kind of ignorance you refer to. The institutional pictures touch me not in the manner of a cheap, horror movie full of cliche torture devices and mad doctors, but because of their associations with real people, all now long departed but whose stories need to be told. Your matter-of-fact explanations of the practices and equipment of the hospitals are the perfect accompaniment to the images, in many ways more disconcerting (the stories of understaffing and changing attitudes for instance) than anything one's imagination could associate with a rusted crib or abandoned ECT machine. I'd never thought of institutions as a microcosm of society, but of course they are. After all, there but for the grace of God (or an accident of birth, depending on one's theological outlook) goes ever one of us.

People have asked about a book or calendar - either way i know it would be incomplete without your explanations, maybe even a foreword... :-)

Of course I did! That's why this place is so fun...

It could've been; there was a chapel on the grounds though, and it is very old. Perhaps it served those who could not make it outside...

OMG...

Never mind the mushy floor, it's the scary buckled wall that's presumably holding up the entire weight of the roof that's freaking me out...

I hope you didn't feel the need to cough or sneeze in this building Motts...

It is, I agree, pretty damn cool.

I wonder if it served a religious function? (More plausible than a ballroom perhaps, and the stained glass is another clue...)

I'm guessing now. Could have been anything.

I hope you didn't even think of walking on any of these floors...

Don't try this at home kids... all urban exploration on this site was carried out by trained professionals :-)

Jeez.

The phrase 'rotten as a pear' springs to mind...

This place is in pretty bad shape.

I'm also of the opinion that it's immensely disrespectful to destroy these places. They should be venues for eye-opening exploration and maybe sombre reflection, but certainly not for wild parties and drug-fuelled vandalism. People might actually learn something if they weren't so keen to smash up sanitaryware and tag every available surface.

Of course, that kind of destruction also results in increased security because of the potential for injury lawsuits etc, making it more difficult for genuine explorers to gain entry, as well as the damage and destruction making theeventual re-use of the building that much more uneconomic...

I love this boat! It's so quaint! *wants it in her backyard*

Wow - this is amazing. I have to say that if I was wandering around an abandoned building and found a room with all the lights on and a computer ready to go, I'd probably get the hell out, in case someone came back...

How weird that this is still lit up as if for a normal working day. I can understand battery-powered emergency exit markers staying lit years after the building crumbles around them, even fluorescent tubes still connected to a supply in a still-inhabited hospital campus, but this is just too weird for words.

How long has the building been derelict?