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Barbara, I see that "design" too. Motts, aren't those screens on the doors? It could be an optical illusion....the sunlight shining off of the screen....Cool shot, too! The red exit sign looks almost like a red evil eye, looking at you...

Dilly Dally can write my Eulogy!

Well said Paul!

Cool.. love the green kinda glow, has the colour of decay..!

Im relatively new to this site after seeing the boat graveyard featured in a magazine here in England, ive been fascinated by all the photos on this site ever since i was old enough to understand what happened at Chernobyl in 1986 and see the photos of the abandoned classrooms and now overgrown playgrounds, i find it heartbreaking that these once great buildings are now left as empty shells but Motts has a God given gift for preserving these sites and long may it continue!

ever heard of 'hospitalism'? thats a serious mental disorder where people suffer from when they're accommodated in a hospital for a long time without adequate care, and hospitalism is very common in overcrouded hospitals. so whatever the people in there suffer from, they additional suffer from hospitalism due to the bad circumstances in there. thats the 'dark' side of all hospitals.

Didn't want to be in this area when "Bula the Buzzer" sounded! Deafening!!!!!!!

Goodbye Old Friend.

The manicure of the grounds,the shine and cleanliness of the halls are now gone, and everyone judges a building that has stood vacant for 25+ years, against the harshness and ravishes of nature, as a creepy, haunted snake pit. I liken the pictures of this building to the pictorial history of Titanic, those in her glory and magnificence and presently of her in her watery grave.

The building was once a magnificent structure but its Time has come to an end. It is time to remove this once magnificent structure from the landscape.

But God bless all the Care Givers who passed through the halls of this building and who worked and sacrificed, under impossible conditions, to provide a clean safe haven for mentally ill patients and other unfortunates who found themselves locked away in this overcrowded Institution. But don't judge their procedures and treatments too harshly for someday, someone may refer to our "modern" procedures as "Barbaric"!

The Hospital, Buildings, Staff and Patients were an experiment in the treament of Mental Illness that in some ways succeeded admirably and in others failed so miserably!

I have walked through these halls,buildings and tunnels a thousand times, and have seen the beauty of the structures of the past as well as the diplorable conditions of the present. I have witnessed the suffering of an overcrowded patient population and the hopes, tears and anguish of an undermanned staff. But as I took my last walk through "Old Main", my eyes saw the building as it once was and I saw and heard the Staff and Patients from a bygone era, all in their places, frozen in time.

NI1, 2, 3 and connecting hall. Hot air relief valves

Yeah, wow indeed. That mark says it all as far as what it must have been like for a person to endure such mental anguish in a place like that.

Storeroom

"Beth, I hear you calling....."

I think this window is safe where it is, somthing tells me that this place requires high tech ninja skills to get into undetected. Usually, if you have the high tech ninja skills then you have enough brains to not destroy somthing so beautifull.

Hanging light fixtures? What are these things you speak of? All I see are a few soap dispensers...

Jude: You really don't want to see what we're doing in there... There's a reason that window is all steamy. :D