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I attended camp there in 1959 and 1960. I remember Fr. Paul Brault, a Canadian. The tower was used as a music tower. My mom brought up a record for Fr. Paul in French and he played it on the tower's loudspeaker. The tower was green trimmed with white. There was also a small convent by the roadside for Salesian nuns from Italy. Dominic Savio was a saint. I became an altar boy there..the chapel was beautiful on the main floor. Every Sunday as visiting hours ended, all campers filed in there for Benediction, then down the other end of the hall for a movie in the gym. kkjfkkp@hotmail.com

this place is so resident evil.

I've been looking through the whole gallery (beautiful shots btw) and I must say the colors are just really wacky. I mean, I like such bright colors on the walls but it just seems really weird to have it in a mental asylum.

I was there 2 day and the room looks nothing like the pix anymore very haunting and decrepid all the walls are covered in grafiti and it's musty dark and chilling there's even a grafiti tag called 'dick man' idk it's a cool place tho they have all the windows borded up so it's impossible 2 see in there if only it were unborded I guess is the way 2 put it

I grew up with this image fresh in my nightmares. Being to young to even Know it was a psychiatric institution I always felt an ominous presence driving by in the family sedan. Although i agree It's visually haunting, unlike it's occupants it seems to escape everyones conscience what this place was .

I was a camper there in 1960 and 1961.Learned to be an altar boy in this chapel. I remember sitting on the altar while the priest gave the sermon on a hot August Sunday and looking out the back doors to the gardens outside and the sunshine..how sad.

i know alot of bands that actually took photos in the morgue as pictures for the album cover.

NYHC graffied on the wall meaning new york hardcore. when i went in there i noticed alot of graffiti and vandalism but ur pictures make it look so creapy i love it great place to go to wit buddies

As I picked up the broken bottle located just below the last step, I mummbled to myself, I hope there are more SAs at the top step.

i think there is a story behind those keys....
very lonely....

whoa! breathtakingly huge!

You have no idea the thoughts and reflections that you have caused me to have after seeing your photos of "The Laurals" Cherry Knowle Hospital. I trained as a psychiatric nurse at this hospital and looking at your photos remined me of many staff and patients who walked these corridors. If filled me with great sadness to see its state, but things have moved on. It is easy to look back in judgement of the past and fail to see the great goodness that was given and recieved in these places in times gone by. Many thanks for the opportunity to look around the Laurals.

I have one that was made for Coca Cola before 1941 as it has the trademark in the first c of Coca. Bottom half of machine (Ice catcher) is red

It looks like all the brick layers beneath the roof are darker as if recently under water.

But that doesn't seem possible given the much lower height of the surrounding outer walls. If those bricks are actually that saturated with water I'll bet you could pretty much knock that whole thing down with one well placed sissy kick.

Naked footprints... very appropriate for this setting. Normally the human footprints we find are shoe prints, unless on the beach or something.

It isn't difficult to imagine a scenerio in which the staff abandoned the place but left the patients behind to fend for themselves.

Thus you have half naked crazies wandering the halls while the place crumbles to ruins around them [assuming a few of them manage to survive unassisted that is].

Either that or we are all wrong and those are just hot and cold water pipes where they may have had shut off valves in an easily accessible spot at one time. All the brass or coper valves and pipes that could be stripped out would have been picked clean by thieves long ago to be sold to a scap yard, probably for dope money.

The ends of those pipes look like the male nozzles for female hydraulic hose ends. Must have been a fancy dumb-waiter not the old fashioned hand pulley kind.

Judging by the reddish color of the broken end as well as the texture of the plastic the brush appears to me made of bakelite which is sought after by antique collectors.

def a small sub chaser of the world war one era

Looks strangely like the entrance to a certain nazi death camp i visited

The fall out shelter signs were posted during world war2 and the cold war on structures that would hold the greatest capacity of people or on structures that had good solid construction......just incase of the end

It looks like a bad end to a good place. If it had not been mulitated by people that should have stayed out. I have seen anything in pics that showed it is haunted. My mom told me not to believe everything you see!

it looks like a military camp cuz it used to be one in ww2

ive been in there several times really creepy at night theres many buildings and bout 95 acres of tunnel underground im told by a guard that caught me n my friends in there once several years ago but look it up on google earth or just visit it you wont be dissappointed for more chat bout it hit me up on myspace my email is kriptyk420@aim.com