Richard Davies This reminds me of one of those chases in Scooby Doo where they ramdomly pop out of different door.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Rhythmic Soundscapes

	Richard Davies Almost a park bandstand.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies This reminds me of the roller blind in my old bathroom. I used to tie my sister's flannel to the cord & roll it up so it would be 7 feet in the air & my sister was only 4 feet something & couldn't reach it!

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies I looks like it has a feeder for multiple sheets, even double sided copying. I've used a few like this in my time.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies I wonder what the little door in the wall is for?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies There seem to be some paint pots there as well.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies Are the compostied printing plates were saw earlier used on this. I remember a couple of schools I went to used spirit duplictors similar to the ones mentioned above, with strange purple ink.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies Is that a phone on the right? late 1970s - 1980s I would guess.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies A couple of museums have mock-ups of old print shops with type set up like this. I have a custom rubber stamp set which I can set up a few lines of text I intend to use a few time like a letterhead.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies Some windows in the left centre are bricked up.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies Did you look in the wardrobes?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies Is it just me, or is the thing on the left an intercom panel?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

	Richard Davies Some British tower blocks were build with seperate liftshafts like this. On in London was recently listed.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

	Richard Davies In some other places they took the books and left the shelves.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

	Richard Davies The covering of the couch is much like the suite my Grandad had for years before passing to my Aunt & Uncle who had it until the early 1990s. The arms were fully upolstered apart from a coaster sized wooden square in each arm.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

	Richard Davies The look like mini gym crashmats.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

	Richard Davies This reminds me of a hotel in Llandudno which had a staircase that seemed to be almost bottomless.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

	Richard Davies You just need a Tesla coil to produce one of those buzzing sparks used in too many horror films.

Location: Glenwood Power Plant  Gallery: Industrial Strength

	Richard Davies I was also thinking about Salvador Dali's menting clocks.

Location: Glenwood Power Plant  Gallery: Industrial Strength

	Richard Davies Often the lift cars are taken as low as possible, propped from below, & the cable cut releasing the emergancy brakes. Some lifts at abandoned Underground stations have had this done to them to deactivate them.

Location: Glenwood Power Plant  Gallery: Industrial Strength

	Richard Davies According to my ex-girlfriend trapezes like this aren't used these days because it's too easy to damage an arm lifting yourself up on one. I see no-one's commented on the odd shaped light fitting yet.

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

	Richard Davies The pipe at the top has a very strange U bend in it.

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: The Power Plant

	Richard Davies the pipes on the side suggest it was some sort of tub for hydrotherepy. One of my old friends had a bath with a pump that would circulate the the water & putting in bubblebath would really foam it up. We tried this when I spent a night there & were up to our necks in subs.

Location: Harperbury Hospital  Gallery: The Search

	Richard Davies You mean a Fleur De Leys? (sp?)

Location: Harperbury Hospital  Gallery: The Search

	Richard Davies Lucky this wasn't near any of the fires started here, as I'm sure it would cause a lot of damage if it got too hot.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight