That room is fantastic - must have been an incredible space when it was in use. Still is!

Fantastic building!

Wow - that looks like a set for a horror movie.
How was the building Motts? With all t he crumbling plaster there, did it seem particularly unsafe to be inside?

I love these back-to-nature shots with peeling paint and creeping plants.

I'm always simultaneously saddened and fascinated by graffiti. Sometimes it's really interesting, or beautiful. But often it's just destructive.

Fantastic lightbeams there!

The liquid might be formaldehyde, or another fixing/preservative agent.

I get the impression that these samples weren't intended for long-term storage because the paper label in the neck of the bottle would have prevented it making an air-tight seal [which is why you can see the level of the fluid has dropped, the tissue should be totally submerged].

Shawn: even if the tissue still held viable DNA that you could clone [massively unlikely], there's a HUGE chance that all you're gonna get is a big lump of cancer.

I don't get why people are so freaked out about this. Okay, so it's a bit morbid, but the people that gave the samples aren't needing those bits of flesh any more. do you start sobbing when you see an eyelash that's fallen out, or toenail clippings? it's dead, it's useless, and yeah, maybe there could be more sympathy involved in the storage, but then, the people that left them thre weren't exactly expecting a buncha people to be snooping round taking photos, were they?

again, it makes no difference whether they're 'abandoned' or in boxes in a storage room. they're just bits of diseased, dead meat.

The path lab i worked in had huge rooms like these. but the worst was the wet samples in bottles, jars, even buckets. whole diseased organs floating in preservation fluid in huge plastic tubs, all stacked up. nasty.

it's just bits of meat set in wax. Okay, so it might be human meat, but it's not gonna hurt anyone, unless they like, melt it and eat it, and even then they'd probably be fine. I doubt the people that the samples are from are affected by whether they're lying around in an abandoned hospital or lying around in a storage room somewhere.

Some funnels, a couple of plastic bottles/beakers, a conical flask and a few measuring cylinders.
The red case in front holds microscope slides, i think.

this looks shockingly similar to the lab i work in at the moment!

wow, that's a beautiful shot, Motts.

wow - that looks like it would have been so depressingly sparse when in use.

for a piece of art - I have to say I love this.
I'd much rather these old buildings be used for something, even just an art project - than be left to rot away and be destroyed entirely by vandals and scavengers.
Imagine these rooms opened up as walk-through galleries. would have been a great way to make money for Mental Health charities or whatever.

Not much privacy - I bet that one on the end was often used so that no one would walk past you while you were sat there!

I have to admit that though I adore the architecture, I would find myself leafing through all the old paperwork I i was in a position to do so.

Somehow that small window into such a PERSONAL element of these old buildings is very enthralling to me. I always tend to find the pictures of old notices and paperwork the most intriguing of Motts' wonderful photos. I guess I'm just nosy!

I does shock me though, how often patients' personal notes are just left scattered about the place for anyone to come along and read. Same for personal belongings and so on. Seems so... thoughtless. Perhaps everyone thought that someone else would come a long and clean it up before the building was locked for the final time.

Do you ever read the paperwork Motts? or does it all become a bit too much of the same after a while?

Definitely a soap dispenser!

I'm not convinced that's authentic [as in, written by a patient]. More likely someone joking around after closure.

Surely anything like that written while the hospital was operating ould have been cleaned off or covered up? Hardly good PR for the other patients or visitors!

Where was this, Motts? Original graffiti, or added after closure do you think?

Could be a child patient showing themselves being made better, or could be some moron vandal trying to be 'clever'.

I love how nature reclaims everything eventually.
There are often pictures of plants creeping in through windows or moss growing on rotting floorboards - seems so melodramatically poetic.

Eef, I'd be terrified of causing the roof to fall in on top of me!

Love that blue/yellow contrast.

Oh wow Motts, stunning colours!

I was just about to comment on the previous pic that I'd love to see a shot with the second set of bars still in place!

This is so chillingly opressive. I can't imagine being in a cage, behind MORE bars, so far from the window... let alone so far from freedom!

Yes, we're sad for having a discussion about an interesting place.
It's a much better use of our time to abuse strangers on the internet.
Thank you, I have seen the error in my ways and will now commence my new life in the manner you have suggested.

James and Laura: shut up and shove it.

no, it's clearly showing 12 midday.