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looks kinda tame here, though....

wrought-iron lattice with Greek scroll above and what looks like highly embellished floral and garden relief beneath

alright, this is a really fucking spooky shot--possibly even more so than that damn hallway...

have you thought of running some of these shots through a de-noising program? this would be a really awesome shot de-noised and converted to b&w!

man, this whole fucking place just SMACKS of "The Shining"! really odd, but the locale is incredible!

I wonder why everything was just left behind?

Bell-bottoms aren't my first chice of explorer-wear in the old asylum :)

This is the original infirmary and it also contains a maintenance section with a metal and wood shop, a sign-painting floor, hundreds of steeel doors piled on the floor, two water wells, and oddly enough, baby toys. There's also a section with glass skylights and a huge open floor that may have been used for a cafeteria or gym. It's also part of the "old" Byberry complex.

The only one? I've seen it hundreds of times but never really noticed that it was the only one. There's also a "hidden" ballroom in this part of the mansion too, up the only flight of stairs that open to the hallways. Goddog has a "now and then" picture display on his site with the ballroom in full use.

This is in "old" Byberry. The original grouping of mansions built in the early 1900's. Although Byberry officially closed in 1990, these mansions have been deserted for decades. The only way in is through a hole in a wall through a boiler room in the steam tunnels. All of the other entrances were bricked over long ago.

The end of this room has a newer-construction brick wall about four layers thick. My friends put endless hours into poking a hole in it with a 20 pound sledge but to no avail. They believe it leads to tunnels but I've seen the blueprints to Byberry and they show nothing in that area. I think it was a loading dock due to the dozens of forklift pallets (now bridging the black hallway) and the flat ground outside of the building where it's located.

There's also a couple of pizza ovens still here. The large bread ovens were made by the guitar-amplifier company Marshall when they still made non-musical machinery. The original Marshall logo is riveted to the front and it mirrors the one on the front of the amp.

There's also another dental office in the old turn-of-the-century "cottages" across the complex with a full set-up, chair and all. The equipment in the old one appears to date back to the forties.

There's also another x-ray room behind the photographer. There used to be thousands of x-rays all over these rooms...thousands...but every single one of them is gone now.

All of these bottles are empty but the amazing thing about them is that they're all glass. They used to be stacked in boxes that lined the walls but you know how it goes in abandoned places near the city.