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its so amazing to think that people actually were once in that room and that the place probably looked nice

Fascinating.

Holy......... wow!

they have tubs like this int he basement of the letchworht power plant....although they are a litte more dirty than this one

From the photos I've seen, it did look OK on opening day (even though the architecture is quite bland and does resemble a slaughterhouse in many ways), but as time went on it got pretty bad. I'll see if I can scan in some photos from the Times article on Byberry, there's a few photographs of the patients living in their own filth inside rooms like these.

If this were lit and clean it wouldn't look so bad. I've worked in hospitals built in the 1960s that looked like this.

I don't want to minimize the conditions at Byberry, but this ward does not look as if it were all that horrible in its heyday. WIth filth, falling plaster, and graffiti all over the place now, it does look terrible in this photo. Imagining it clean and well-lit paints a different picture.

what now bitches (security)

Radicalness!! That's not me bro. I wouldn't put that faggotry up there, hahaha RD. Probly that micheal jackson character, remember him... er, her...er it?

Yeah, he's 16

This is actually not a gymnasium at all. It was originally built as a kitchen/cafeteria building. This was the women's cafeteria. There's an old shot of it from the 30's on the jeffline archives. It was later used as an occupational therapy suite.

It's hard for many to realize, but tagging is sort of a trait of byberry explorers since it closed. I too, personally hate the fires *ahem*, and all the senseless destruction. Productivity seems a better way to spend time in a place you plan on coming back to over and over. But tagging has always been synonamous with byberry. Its part of what makes byberry byberry, like it or not. I agree with Ed about how worng it is to tag at other places, ( i feel like a shmuck for my few tags at Pennhurst). But it will always be part of byberry, so can we keep the bitching to ourselves please? If its not your thing, don't come to "the berry".

I do not believe that the description is correct. The light is coming from a room that has windows to the courtyard. The steel roof access ladder was, with a sink, located behind the door directly ahead in the picture. I worked there in the 1970s.

OK Does anyone else see a face looking at them from the top of the window, in the green...Shudder..GREAT PICTURES

That chair is even freakier in person.