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It is beautiful thats for sure. Nice too see that there still using some buildings in this complex. Is it just one Motts or is there others that they are using also? Just wondering. Great pic as always!! You don't disappoint thats for sure!! :)

First of all, try riding your bike through there in the early 1970's at 9:00pm (pitch black) with all the patients screaming out the windows - At the age of twelve -we were scared shitless.

Anybody else remember messing with Ziggy or Saving Cream , they would go ballistic and the guys in the white coats would come and take them away kicking and screaming !!!

I know it sounds cruel, but it was a right of passage for kids to mess with the patients. I thought it was normal at the time , now it seems kinda creepy.

We are meeting at the campsite behind Hills tonight... Don't forget to bring Schaffer beer and the bread crates. bread crates make the best bond fires.

hahahhahahaha the rights to demolish were sold on ebay for $136.20... typical

my mistake, it was the old bridgewater state hospital (which is still in use today) not Braintree

Stunning!!!

If u all find this interesting you should watch the movie Titicut Follies, it was filmed in 1967 at Braintree state hospital in Ma. Ma. banned it from ever being shown because it showed the abuse and treatment of patients, the state was ashamed, they wanted all copies destroyed, as allways a few made it out. Very hard to find a copy but if you look hard enough you'll find one. You will find alot of simularities. But even in the 18oo,s people hid theire children with disabilities up on the 3rd flr. of their homes, complete with sound proof and escape proof, and destroyed the birth certificuts. Like everything else thank god we have learned by trial and error and have corrected our wrongs!

Maybe they only had one arm :)

Thank you for a really cool gallery! I loved seeing the old coffins, they are so beautiful!

Very nice!

Motts, as curious as I am to know the location (although since I live in Connecticut I am sure I will never go there), I admire that you have kept this location a secret and that and the fact that you have enough respect not to open the caskets! :-)

Thanks for the info Kez and Richard. I wonder if the crown/coronet had to somehow be attached to the coffin? I mean, I hope no one would have even thought of taking it anyway, but sadly enough, you never know.

Those doors are SO cool! Great shot! But I suddenly feel cold....I need some more hot coffee!

can people go i nhere and look around?

This place is stunning, and I think this may be one of my favorite galleries (I have many, it's so hard to choose, lol!). Motts, thank you again!!! What a wonderful set, I love all the infared shots!

Ooooo, I actually gasped when I saw this!