800 Comments for Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)

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It's beautifully haunting
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oh the memories...
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Fantastic angle
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It seems to be one of those places where you feel a strong sense of deja vu. All I can think of when I see this are dreams.
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why the hell do people have to graffiti it ruins perfectly good photography :(
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Dammit Bill R.! I was watching Back to the Future when I read your comment! It was during the dance scene. Whatever it is, it sings!
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I believe at one time, people used to heat large stones and place them under the floors in order to heat the rooms. It is quite possible the holes are where large paddles holding the heated stones would enter the building and placed underneath the floors.
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Believe it or not, I was born in St. Margaret's in the year of 1980...Kinda weird stumbling across it...That's where a piece of my history began...Now where will it end, but more is what I have done in between...Thanks guys for the beautiful photos...No matter what, history lives everywhere...
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"A picture is a painted poem. Those who deny it are simply men who have no poetry in their composition."
-J. Comyns Carr, "Coasting Bohemia", 1914.
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one word.......STUNNING!
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looks like some sort of latch to me
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the fall of the house of usher..!
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Well... if you like rust then I'll call you Salad Fingers.
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It would have been interesting to see what this room originally looked like as compared to now!
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Motts, this is an amazing picture, it looks like something straight out of a photography book, only with the unique "Mott's edge" haha, perfection.