rich_edwards79 Nice to see those curtains and dividers. The stalls are rudimentary, but they'd have afforded some privacy...

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	rich_edwards79 A great set. Thank you very much for sharing...

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	rich_edwards79 I would if I were locking up this place for the last time - a note saying 'Unlucky'.... ;-)

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	rich_edwards79 Looks like a gurl - albeit one with three arms! Am I right?

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	rich_edwards79 Now that is some big-time structural failure. I hope even you didn't think of getting too close...

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	rich_edwards79 Dead and lifeless... what a tragedy :-(

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	rich_edwards79 It's funny, the walls don't look fire-damaged (blackened and missing plaster, as is the norm with burned-out buildings). If I didn't know different I'd say this looks as though it has just caved in through neglect.

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	rich_edwards79 Well the set wouldn't be complete without one...

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	rich_edwards79 I don't see any doors, and the hinges suggest they've been removed for scrap - perhaps they were metal. More intriguing is that electrical trunking running along the top of the wall and down above each door. Private rooms with nurse call buttons perhaps? Lynne? :-)

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	rich_edwards79 Very Seventies, judging by the clothes and hair. I wonder if these were real people - staff or patients perhaps - or just a figment of someone's imagination? Sad to see it defaced in a place which is otherwise very clean.

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	rich_edwards79 And the composition of this is breathtaking.

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	rich_edwards79 This is a fantastic pic. I wish I had your eye Motts.

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	rich_edwards79 To me the lack of windows seems symbolic and marks the difference between a living building and the corpse which this one appears from a distance. It's as though her soul has fled; she has given up all her secrets and now merely awaits the final indignity with eyes that no longer see...

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	rich_edwards79 Check the bottom of your boot lol....

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	rich_edwards79 Good job there's no power in THIS place...

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	rich_edwards79 It's when you find fingernails in the plaster you need to worry :-/

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	rich_edwards79 Someone *really* wanted to get in there. Or out...

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	rich_edwards79 Glad I wasn't behind that when it went over. It looks like a movie set but I bet it's a good deal more solid. Looks like someone had a nice little office at the end of that corridor once. Talk about a room with a view...

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	rich_edwards79 It's a thingamyjig.

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	rich_edwards79 Nature has done a pretty good job of reclaiming it - I doubt there were 30-foot trees peeping above the walls when it was in use!

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	rich_edwards79 This is an unusual, but perhaps refreshing sight after all the pictures of vast, communal toilet and shower rooms in other institutions

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	rich_edwards79 It is kinda freaky that the curtains remain in situ when the place has been almost completely gutted otherwise...

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	rich_edwards79 My guess is that they were isolation cells, judging by the narrow glazed panel in each door.

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	rich_edwards79 Ron, my money would be on medical tests. Autopsies. Pathology. It's just a science lab. I doubt people were gagged, strapped down and subjected to freakish painful experiments and torture, if that's what you mean...

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	rich_edwards79 As was said on an earlier thread, IMHO it's immensely disrespectful to lie down in a morgue freezer for the hell of it. Tantamount to arsing around in coffins, taking pictures to prove how 'brave' you are (rolls eyes)...

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