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Thanks, Jmack! : )
I was just thinking how intimidating this hallway could be to a patient, if they had to walk down it with a staff member, or by themselves. It is so long to begin with. And if it didn't have any windows?That would make it all the more so!

ive got pictures sittin in that chair

Thanks Ed from Oregon

The Kirkbride design was mostly used in asylums in the United States, and there are many hospitals (both active and abandoned) which use this layout that are still extant.

Thank you for another new gallery Mr. Motts!! Ed from Oregon

A little 3-in-one oil, and give it a push! Imagine the faces of people in the area if the clock started working again?

GRIFS!!!! Aint Floyyd GRRREAT?? Good to see ya! Where ya been lately?

If you think about don't most of these pictures seem like the settings of the titanic?

I know that if I was exploring some of the sites Motts has, and came across items like this, I would have a hard time restraining my urge to "pick up a little something" as a keepsake. Though I agree with him that the risk isn't worth it. Still it would be pretty tempting at times.

I am sure that as you said Motts, the daily schedules and such would be pretty dull reading, but what has always bothered me when looking through some of the galleries is the obvious lack of care a lot of these schools, hospitals and instituations seemed to have when it came to patient's records. There are any number of photos you have in the various galleries that show cases in which patient's medical records were just left behind when a site was closed down, seemingly without any care or concern for the privacy of those people who's histories were contained in those files.

There are a lot of people out there who don't show the restraint Motts does when it comes to "raiding" abandoned sites for souveniers, and I know I would hate to have been a former patient or family member of a patient and had to face the knowledge that my personal medical or mental health history could easily end up in the hands of someone out there who had no legal and certainly no ethical right to it.

I just don't understand how they can get away with just leaving sensitive files like that laying around. Aren't there legal and professional obligations and rules requiring these places to protect the privacy of their patients???

Is this the kiddie one at Rocky Point now? If so When?
Tks

Great set, Motts, I especially like the last infrared shot. My only complaint: Where's the signature lonely chair shot????

Unbelievable! Liam O' Keefe

On a similar note, are all the Kirkbrides gone?

They look like they used to be small windows over the doors that were covered up for some reason. These windows seemed to be prominent in the English asylum architecture http://www.opacity.us/...lackened_windows.htm

The tower in the front of the building has a small spiral staircase which leads to four balconies on each site that you could hang out on.

They are towed in to the yard and awaiting to be scrapped... they might be pushed into the muddy bottom so they don't move or half-sunk already.