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It could just be decorative. I prefer to think that the monks were ninja's in training though.

Motts - Is that ceiling flat or is there a barrel arch to it? I can't tell if there is an arch or if the shadows are tricking my eye. Great shot.

Amazing that the shutters are real. We get so used to them being decorative only in the US that it's easy to forget they have a real function.

Awesome shot!

Makes you wonder... are you inside the gate or outside?

I imagine that there was a fire extinguisher mounted to the wall under that red sign many years ago.

I wonder if all those arches were open long ago?

The detail on the bottom of the window almost makes the bars appear decorative and non threatening.

looks like an opening in the center was cemented over in this room too.

Labs keep all kinds of counts most of which deal with the number of tests that are run. Now a days they use numbers to show how the items they buy are used and for reporting to licensing agencies for accreditation. % of accuracy New standard numbers for standard tests. Just a few years ago they changed what is considered a normal blood sugar based on research and lab findings.

That tank in the middle of the door and a couple that were lying around in the first picture of the lab make me nrevous about what is in them. Tanks can hold all kinds of things. If these were dangerous I would like to think someone would have removed them.......silly me it is abandoned. Just one more reason to be extremely careful in buildings like this. Be careful Motts!

I think it is the most secure closure of a door I have seen in many a picture. Sure closes of the area unless you have tools and lots so time. Only makes me more curious about what is in there........

its funny how they would abandon innocent angels like that

exact same paint = that yellow paint. I'm guessing maybe it was not painted since then.

I remember I was taken to this hall and no one explained why but made sure to try to make me fearful of it. They alwasy did that with anything. I sat at that desk that is on end, maybe the exact same one, and took some kind of test a mean man or older kid sat at the other desk . I walked up to that office it was the exact same paint then as was the hall (I previoulsy mentioned), the room was full of desks and people. There was a woman sitting at a desk that was just inside the doorway. Her desk was set to face out the hallway but was a couple of feet into the room. She shouted at me not to cross the doorstep and after saying something humiliating me made me wait what seemed like forever until eventually someone came and took the papers from me. Then the mean man took me back toward the source of the photo where we had come in. I don't recall the exact path we took but it had been unnecessarily circuitous as everything they did and said ot me was to make sure I sounded wrong if I ever talked about it.

agreed mamatofive it actually does look like a school