Spiral Staircase

high-five, dude. this could not have been an easy picture to take.

AWESOME, AWESOME SHOT !

This reminds me of Alcatraz, the iron staircases leading up to the levels of cell blocks. Great picture.

I love how it's obscured so you can't see how high it goes or where it leads!

Now that is a perfect setting for a creepy film if ever I saw one!

Am just seeing the "good guy" running up the staircase and getting to the balcony where that rope or something is dangling, then out comes the "baddie" from the shadows and throws him over the edge, or maybe something more sinister involving the rope!

my two friends went all the way to the top to the beams or whatever its pretty high up, us three didnt feel toi safe walking across them.. lol

AMAZING SHOT!! TOTALLY BOSS ANGLE

i saw these stairs back stage this is a good pic its pitch black in there

Cool shot..This reminds me of two guys fencing (sp) up the stairs

now that's what i call scary.

Anazing shot. I love it

That's impressive!!! *bows at Motts*

Not to be asking the magician to give away his secrets, but damn Motts, how did you get this shot? Is it a single image, or did you sew two together? It's just so... BIG!

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! *I* didn't say that, ~Me - swear to God! =8-o

It's big and impressive! Jsut the way ~Me likes 'em : )~

what building is this in?

what building is this staircase in?

This one is in the Furey Ellis auditorium (large auditorium).

Cool! One hell of a DNA Model! Nice shot, I like this photo.

Must... slide... down... railing.

At least let me set up the video recorder before you attempt it!

sliding the rails... sweet idea... if you dont fall or it doenst break.... or something

I HATE WALKING ON SPIRAL STAIRCASES IT MAKES YOUR LEGS FEEL LIKE JELLO AND IT FEELS LIKE THEY MIGHT BREAK BUT I HATE GOING DOWN THEM THE MOST!!

has anyone tried sliding down the railing???

how did you take that picture its long as shit.

That is one amazing spiral staircase! I imagine would would get dizzy going down that more than a few times a day!

wow just looking at it makes me tierd and dizzy...

LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!! I feel it has to have a title.

This one is choice.

the top of this staircase was my absolute favorite spot of byberry

That is too creepy I'm surprized those stairs haven't a death! what is that rope looking thing hanging to the right of the stair way? That's even creepier

Stairs cannot die, they simply stop going up.

Ah, but they can die when the building dies.

Holy smokes! Absolutely magical shot!

I bags next after Phamie!!! Wheeeeeeee!

dude!?!?! where is this at?!?!

This spiral staircase was backstage in the Furey Ellis auditorium.

DUDE!

Me Likey!

Bitchin' photo! The best of the bunch. Love the staircase, you've got a great eye...

Looks like this place could consume you

i think they have staircases like this in my school.
but im not entirely sure.
(:

Great Picture!

An AMAZING shot! How hard was it to take it?

Wow... i was speechless when i saw this one.... and there has been a couple that made me gasp....nice job...i love it

I grew up in Nottingham and walked the RED BRICK ROAD thru the woods to byberry every other day just about. It's truly sometplace that every kid should be able to explore. I found myself and my good friends walking the halls of byberry at midnight having drinking parties there and sometimes tripping my face off while exploring this ominious group of delapitative structures. I still have at the bottom of my palm which actually went right thru to the bone when it happened.

I was climbing down a cluttered stairwell most likely inhebriated most comfortably but slipped and my hand reached out for something to stop my fall, wouldn't ya know there was a door with a small square window that was smashed out and my palm thumped right ontop of a peice of glass protruding from the bottom. Needless to say " It Hurt ". Oh ,and there was this other time..

We went to the nearby gardens where the people from the city would grow thier veggies. We would steal us a sweet melon and go munch at byberry. Well this one day we decided to grab a melon someone spotted us and started chase , about three of these crazed gardeners chased us right into one of the buildings. When we got to the top floor we heard one of the guys coming up the stairs. So we hopped out onto the roof and it was very steep about 5 floors high. My sneakers were really worn on the bottoms and I was having major problems securing my footing. I slowly kept sliding off of this roof, which by the way the shingles were so old they would just crumble as you slid. Anyway here we are four of us on the roof and a guy hanging out the window we just climbed out of swinging a machete screaming at us about stealing his fruit. I can laugh now but I was about 14 when this took place and it was the most terrified I had ever been in my life.Finally my friend saw my dilemma and carefully helped me back up to the peak where it was safe.Eventually the guys gave up thier chase,afraid to venture onto to the treacherous roof.
I grew up in these abandoned buildings and I wouldn't want to change a thing. What an incredible childhood byberry provided for me and my friends.
I am glad you guys created this site to share this memorable event from my childhood.
Peace out all you crazy people. Nottingham Rulz 4 LIFE !

Very interesting reading, Ben B!
Thank you for your comments.

Very interesting. I always knew of the Furey Ellis Auditorium through my family.My Great Uncle was Furey Ellis. I never knew him and don't have much info on him. He was on the Board of Trustees.

Christina Ellis Preiss, if he is your Great Uncle then were related. He was my mothers Uncle.

this setting would have made a great set for an eerie movie

It really would. I'd be scared s**t-less if this was a movie. Does anyone know where this is. I think it's in the basement. I don't think people would keep this area open to everyone.

So, where do those magnificent stairs lead?

Makes me wanna climb them. That's alot of steps. Can you imagine being the had to climb them all the time?

Stunning shot.

No, i only thought the other spiral staircase was great, This one is most definitely the Best set of steps ive ever seen! What a climb!

What a story these photographs and website tell. All the years in the 70's and 80's when I drove by these abandoned buildings and wondered what history the walls held, maybe I didn't really want to know. I'm glad to now, less then 24 hr's from 2010 read and see some of the history. May we live and learn and never go back to this again, and may a guiding light lead the ex patients and employee's to a healthy, peaceful future.

This is a suicide jumpers dream.

Nice shot. Stairs are for the rigging system. Top floor is the high steel where all the head blocks are, the loading floor for the arbors, the fly floor and the lower loading floor would have all been accessible from this stairwell. Really good condition for its age too.

I worked in a theater like this last year, and I hated going up and down those spiral stairs. I have always had a fear of heights.

The summer of 1988 myself & 2 friends took a tour of Byberry. My biggest regret was not taking a camera. I've been telling stories of it for 23 years now. I never thought I would see it again. These pictures are amazing. Thank You

Christina Ellis Preiss and Debbie Taylor....I guess we are all related because Furey Ellis was also my father's uncle. I was born the year he died, but heard about him when I was little. I am on facebook if you'd like to connect. That staircase is amazing and would scare the heck out of me!