1,236 Comments for York Street Jail

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Yeah, I was gonna say, good one ~Me!
(I can't believe I actually got that one)
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All I know is that those are some damn big knives! And that cleaver really creeps me out. This looks practically straight out of a horror movie...
What's perhaps even more creepy is that someone has gotten into the cabinet and taken them all...
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Great set... thank you for sharing. Definitely looking forward to seeing the products of your trip.
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They look like stone or concrete guards, to protect the corners of the walls on the narrow entrance from trolleys, vehicles... whatever. I used to work in a postal sorting office and all the doorways had these, partly to round off the corners so that your big trolley of mail or whatever wouldn't get caught on it. They're quite common in factories and hospitals too in my experience.
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I love the composition of this one.
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It looks like it may have been used in a play... did this prison have a theatre or anything?
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That is some very freaky perspective...
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I look at this site all the time aswell.I came across it when someone at the ghoststudy messageboard noticed an interesting anomaly/optical illusion in one of the photos and I have been here ever since.
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One day I'm going to get in trouble for looking at this site at work, but I like it. I don't have internet or a computer at home :(
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Contrast that carpet with the ones in the Pines lol
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ewwww...
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I can visualise the warden walking down the endless rows of cells, jangling his keys and banking on the bars with his nightstick. "Lights out!"

... of course I speak from having seen too many prison films, not personal experience ;-)
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That is an amazing shot.
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This is probably from the era of the early Speak and Spells and that little robot that lit up and made noises and would quiz you on various things.
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Odd design. Usually prison blocks seem to have two 'walls' of cells facing one another across an atrium, with translucent roof. This one seems to be better in that it possibly gave the inmates a view through those full-length windows, though possibly the cells were built back-to-back and therefore didn't have their own windows onto the outside...