Richard I wonder what it is that 's laying on the seat.It looks like a file of some sort but I'm sure I'm wrong.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Restraints

	Richard With all respect to Dr. Riley, 8 large strawberry leaves signifies a duke. An earl's coronet would have 8 small strawberry leaves and 8 pearls.

Location: Crypt of Barons  Gallery: Laid to Rest

	Richard Absolutely fantastic gallery. By far the best gallery of a burial crypt I've ever seen. This is a coronet rather than a crown; a crown has arches over the top. This looks like the coronet of a duke. As to who, well...

Location: Crypt of Barons  Gallery: Laid to Rest

	richard Such a great site. Love this shot. ...the shipwrecks too... Cheers, man

Location: Margate State School  Gallery: Antiquities

	Richard The tower was a bell tower the building was also a chapel for funerals for those interred there. The bell is still in the tower. A friend of mine toured this building recently when the caretaker showed him around. There is talk of MAYBE opening this up for one day for the public to see.

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

	Richard Yes!!!! North Brother island!!!! WooHoo! I hoped you'd get here some day.

Location: Riverside Hospital (North Brother Island)  Gallery: Typhus

	Richard Didn't they put Captain Pike on one of those chairs on Star Trek?

Location: The Ladd School  Gallery: Brownfields

	Richard Whatever it is, it looks like it is singing

Location: Stella Artois Brewery  Gallery: Pure Inebriation

	Richard Why do people think suspended cielings are nice?

Location: Sanitarium Joseph Lemaire  Gallery: Modernism

	Richard This picture takes me back to the 1950's, to see my little sister (6yrs.) trying to walk again after polio, with this type of brace and corrective boots, she was a fighter! Alas, breast cancer caught her in 1995, after a full life with 3 kids,who still keep in touch!

Location: Kingsley Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Faded Memories

	Richard Something insectoid about it.

Location: Kingsley Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Faded Memories

	Richard I have always loved your work but this piece just took my breath away! Nature taking back what is hers. Fantastic

Location: Whittingham Hospital  Gallery: Shut In

	Richard This place closed before the whiteboard era.

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

	richard the public purse should not pay for the disposal of these hulks......the last owner should...

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks

	richard the working heart of a vessel deep inside but so vital....you must always keep the heart of anything well maintained

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks

	richard each wreck has a soul if only..........

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks

	Richard It looks like it was a radiation therapy unit for dermatology, see: http://www.iop.org/EJ/.../0031-9155/51/13/R14 I can't access the article, btu the logo looks similar to the old RankArena logo, who made televisions.

Location: Cherry Knowle Hospital  Gallery: Overnight

	Richard I almost fell through a floor in one area, The cieling over the night club is barely holding together. The fire in one building hasn't helped. It hsa been exposed to the elements with no maint. for just about 10 years. the cieiling over the kitchen has caved in.

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

	Richard The borscht belt resorts closed for many reasons, Failure to upgrade, Over zealous upgrades, The owners descendents not wanting to continue in the buisness. Jewish resorts fading away as the cultures blended and old predjudices died out. Cheaper vacations farther away, The list goes on and on

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

	Richard Doreen, having explored this place, I think it is beyond restoration.

Location: The Pines Hotel  Gallery: Trip with Drie

	Richard Yes - a good photographer HAS balls.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Guinea Pig

	Richard This gallery had a very Lovecraftian feel

Location: Crypt of Barons  Gallery: Laid to Rest

	Richard Bravo!

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

	Richard Look at them. they are screaming.

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

	Richard Reminds me off Rose Red

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum