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The steps lead down to other wards and the football pitch and cricket pitch and there used to be a couple of tennis courts. In the summer we used to have a garden fete on the grass outside the church/clock.

A ghost could easily haunt this old hallway.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Don't ever use that elevator because you might get trapped in that elevator forever.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Used to be the disturbed ward where people needed that little bit extra care and attention. Some of those doors were locked from the outside with no handle inside so the patients couldnt get out until they had calmed down. There were peep holes so you could check to see if they were alright. Sounds barbaric I know but at the time it was the done thing

First of all what floor is this room on ?

Because this room looks like it could have been a "day - room" for the Soldiers to play pool or play ping - pong or listen to the radio or read magazines or just sit and relax and smoke cigarettes. In those days they did not have smoke alarms in buildings and people did have the same attitudes abouts cigarettes as people do today concerning safety, health and fire hazards. So this "day - room" probably got real smokey. Today, in the Military building's and the Government buildings the Military Personnel along with the Civilian Personnel have to go outside to a designated smoking area to have their little smoke break.

Day rooms in the Military are usually on the first floor unless the building is several stories tall. This building has only three stories and a basement. But Military Government buildings are usually designed exactly same way on each floor, except the basement, in order to save money on design cost's so it is quite possible that there could have a "day - room" on each floor except the basement floor.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Since I am in the Army I can tell you for certain that this building does have the basic Military style of design for the World War II era. It has a very "boxy" and a very boring and bland look to it's architecture. I can see Soldiers performing "police - calls" around the building.

"Police - calls" is another word for walking around a building or an area and picking up the trash that has been thrown on the ground. And what is oddly funny or oddly strange about picking up the trash around a building or an area is the fact that the trash that the Soldiers are picking up is the very same trash that the very same Soldiers have thrown on the ground in the first place. So the Soldiers are picking up there own trash that they should have thrown in the trash can in the first place.
And these police - calls happens every single day somewhere in the Military. And don't forget; The United States Military Personnel are on every Continent on this Planet.

So that is alot of police calls and trash to pick up.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

What a CREEPY photograph of the stairwell.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Let's go down there with a spot light and a couple of machine guns.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

There are few movies in which they have used this machine in order to kill people with it.
I cannot recall the names of the films or the names of the actors or actresses that starred in these films. They would lock the intended victim into one of these contraptions and turn up the heat to the maximum capacity that it could go and let the person boil to death.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Hey ! I saw "The Three Stooges" use one of those machines in one of their crazy old comedy films.

Now which one was it ?

Moe Howard ?
Curly Howard ?
Shemp Howard ?
Larry Fine ?
Joe Besser ?
or was Curly Joe DeRita?

Oh well, it does not matter.
Those six guys were classics !

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

This is just more photographic evidence of the way people are treated in these government run institutions. The bathrooms are almost always the same. There is very little privacy and they are so utilitarian in design and function that they help make peoples mind turn into a complete blank. Look at that toilet that is the closest to the door. The person who is using that toilet will get hit by the door every time someone comes in. These people are never treated with any kind of dignity at all.

Some day these old fat - cats who are in power will die off and a new generation will take their place and make things much better. I just wish that these old crones would just hurry up and fall dead into their bowl of soup while sitting at their oak, mahogany and teak wood dining room tables.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

In a strangely off beat sort of way this photograph has the look of the old horror classic 1920 silent film called:

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

The tilt of this photograph along with the angles of the light and shadows are wonderful !!!

If you get a chance to watch this film you really should. Or just go on - line and read up on it.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

For some unknown reason of which I really do not know why;

I have this undying HATRED for all ferns !!!

I have never had any ferns in any of my gardens in the past or present and I will never have any ferns in any of my gardens in the future. To me, ferns are some sort of throw - back plant to pre - historic times.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

It almost has the look of a childs board game.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Great photograph !!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.