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that floor tile is actually a very classic design. Very popular in the 20's. Alot of people are doing it again today.

looks like someone ripped the metal bars off the window in a desperate attempt to get out.

Betty, if you saw someone riding their Harley Davidson down the main hallway of an abandoned asylum, then you would have been pretty amused too!

J.R.,

Grab a copy of the book that Mott's references above - Leo Polaski's "The Farm Colonies" (2003). It has a ton of grand pix.

hey, Motts, think you could take my band's photos?

Sorry, J.R. Too busy banging my head against the wall to catch this earlier. ;-)

i saw those mobiles, "sam" is talking about. i wonder if they were made by the patients?

i was in letchworth village yesterday and i went into almost all of the cottages. i didnt find one sink or urinal that was plastered like that.

"Son!!! You forgot to MOW the VESTIBULE!!! Get busy!!!"

That made me choke and pound my desk. Thanks for the laugh!

my mother told me stories, about how the institution was split up into two groups. back then [1910-1930 or 40] if you were promiscuous they put you in letchworth. you were looked at, as no different then the mentally ill. my mother also told me that the x y and z buildings would do experiments called "labodimies" which entailed doctors to cut out peices of the brain to see if it could cure a person if not just to see what happened. my mother also knew and 80 year old women who was put into letchworth for being promiscuous in her late teens- 20's. as you may have concluded she died there. what happened to all those people i so sad, not to mention what happened to letchworth itself. my mother and her friends speak about it as such a beautiful place, but after what i saw yesterday it just seems so dreary and sad. i was told that it closed because it had the highest death rate and malpratice that was not reported in the state. is that true?

If Wales is anything like Ireland, and I'd assume it is, it's probably limestone.

I really love this shot, and I had to comment, it really reminds me of the church in Final Fantasy 7.

Seems like someone left there in a hurry. That is what it looks like. I wonder why there are random things left like that , but where are all the tables and chairs and trays and anything else that would have been used?

kind of like on an old farm. they would use this as the connection between a greenhouse and the mainhouse or the barn. wow, i like that idea.

i love this gallery