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Oh child, we'd rush down and pick you up, give you a tetanus shot, and get you to an asbestos clinic if that happened. :-)

They really don't make 'em like they used to. Such a shame that this will soon be lost forever.

One day we'll wake up and realise that our architectural history consists of corrugated tin supermarkets and flat-pack housing, because anything of any value has long since been ton down.

BONER!

Thank-you. *head bowed reverently* Again, I feel small. This gallery was intense.

Motts, does anyone know what purpose the basement served. I mean, was it a storage area, or what?

Just in mine. :-)

I'm not quite such a purist as Twug (though I understand her dislike of this stuff) in that I don't consider all graffiti to be unattractive and without merit. Some 'urban art' undoubtedly requires considerable graphical ability. However there is definitely a time and a place for it, and this is not it, especially as the work itself is of the crudest, ugliest type. As someone else said, no doubt scrawled by some wannabe gangsta (read bored white middle-class kid trying to impress his pals....)

This room reminds me of the 'candy cane dungeon' at Pennhurst and although it's naturally lit, it's almost as creepy...

That's okay rich, I look at photos like this and I lose all sense of reason, and get overwrought, so I usually can't type either.

If I thought they would let me look through the buildings and pick up some stuff for our museum (or any museum), I'd be up there in a heartbeat!

However, I am such an old-fashioned type that I would need not only permission but written, signed, sealed, and legally affadavited permission. ;-)

MOTTS, YOU went through "the doors". Yikes.

Bill, that is what I always think about when I see these magnificant older buildings. This would be a bitch by today's standards, but without all that fancy-schmancy power equipment . . . =8-o

The peeling paint, the abject sameness. It's so eery, and sad. They must have been so horribly bored here.

I see the face it seams to be half in and half out of the window, i beleive this shot is real , i have captured (EVP) and photographs of "ghosts" inside of pennhurst.

Yeah, well every week I have to give the staff who get their yearly refresher courses the speech about bezoars and people eating latex gloves. I know whatcha mean. ;-)

Holy football field!