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The colours in this are amazing!!

You can really see the age of the chairs in the style of them.
Wow! Jude is right - the colors are amazing! Not what I expected from the black and white pix!
Is that algae on the floor, or is it grass?

Mr. Motts, were the floors wet or damp at all? If so, it would be a perfect breeding groud for algae.
the colors are indeed fascinating here. i need tickets to that show...
It was a combination of algae and moss, and yes most of the building was quite damp.
When I first saw this photo, I thought it was a row of rusty tanks in a factory.
yep, exactly the same uncomfortable plywood seats with beautiful ornamental cast iron supports. our building was built in 1827, so I guess this is in the ballpark of the same age. please excuse my typing, i'm not illiterate, just typing around a cat.
It is my wet dream to visit an abandoned theatre.

But I wouldn't go without somebody like Motts (or Motts himself) to take the pictures.

Motts, you still need to get to the UK fella!
I'll be in England next week! ;-)
motts youve just missed the most spectacular sports center being bashed in crawley west sussex...... and rakes of schools...
nice chairs
Yay!

Urm, no idea where you are planning to go in Engerland, but if you find yourself in South East London, there's a great photo-worthy place in a town called Coulsdon. The place is called Cane Hill Asylum.
earlswood would have been a blinder too, i went there in 97\98 to an auction and it was well grim, it had its own full operating theatres and eveything, they turned it into 400,000 pound flats with a big centeral swimming pool and called royal earslwood park as oppossed to royal earlswood mental hospital. i wonder if the tenants of today now the history, quite weird to live in old asylum......
Reminds me of the days of the ushers with the flashlights. Everything then was shssssss.
I wish things were still Shhh! The last 3 times I've been to a movie theater there has been some dumb-a who thinks it's a good time to talk on his cell phone. ugh.
Don't like going to the movies anymore; too much disrespect and also TOO expensive!
Must agree with Lynne--the color photos provide something unexpected...the aging is so apparent.
im no artist of any kind but the lighting couldn't be any more perfect
funny how the floor could be in such bad shape yet the chairs seem unscathed from this angle.
Motts: You must love to travel eh? Where do you plan on going next?
I travel along the eastern seaboard often, I hope to visit Germany and Scotland on my next overseas trip to explore.
Motts:Thats cool. Where are you from?
its all a lie no such things ghosts are not real ad its not haunted
These types of seats are reminiscent to the ones in my local junior high school (built in the 1920s), only there, the wooden backs have old red velvet cushions added on and the metal supports are all black (like wrought iron).
ive been at night in the dark with my people to find ghost nothing was found went into four of the old buildings we where told it was haunted i did not see anything good luck ghost hunters
beautiful chairs
This shot makes me think of sneaking over to a buddy during a presentation in mischief < < > >
THis reminds me of the chairs in the auditorium in my daughter's school! She is in 6th Grade and my husband (her father) used to go to that school way back in the 1970's! I think it was a high school back then (9th - 12th Grade) and when we went there for Orientation at the beginning of this school year (2010) he said it brought back a LOT of memories! The school looks a lot like he remembered it. Wow.

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