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Destruct

A typical room in one of the buildings... they had been cleaned out pretty well and were not all too interesting.
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Interesting enough with those wacky tiles...
I was thinking the same thing. I've never seen that pattern before. Pretty freaky.
actually I think what you are looking at is the pattern in the adhesive used to mount the tile to the wall in places where the tile has fallen off. The pattern is from a notched trowel used regulate the depth of the adhesive.
Or maybe they meant the coloured tiles on the rest of the walls...... not sure?
Yes, the colour of the tiles.
Motts how come u dont have any galleries of abanonded factories theres so many in mass there some down the street from me
Hmm, I notice all of these buildings in Europe that were abandoned in the '90s are in terrible shape, and look like they've been abandoned as long as some of the buildings you've shot here in the US that have been abandoned since the '70s or '80s. Weather perhaps?
kinda creepy looking
jay, I have a bunch of big industrial locations coming up in the future, just need some time to get to them!
The one thing Motts needs the most, he never has enough of.... "Time". :-(

Joe, my guess is the wetter weather there might cause accelerated deterioration.
Like the blood looking splashes round where the door handle would be, someone clawing to get out?
THERE GO THOSE CIELING RADIATORS AGAIN!
im crawling to get out ;)
looks like somthing out of silent hill
So this is what it looks like! I didn't get far when tresspassing about two weeks ago. Too many vans driving through.
its strange, i have been into the place its weird to see it again, very unique place
Wall tiles don't come off that easily, even if there is that much bonding on the wall....hmmm I note a lot of angst there.
The buildings on this side of St. Margaret's complex were abandoned about 17 years ago and fared pretty well at first as there was security posted on this side but once the security was moved to the other side of the complex when that closed down the local kids got in and destroyed the buildings.
It has always been a very creepy place, I have been in most of the buildings when they were first abandoned and they all had the old parkae wooden floors which over time the kids ripped up and burnt but wherever you were in the building you somehow felt like you were not alone.
We used to ride our horses over there through the buildings and chat to the security who had a constant battle to try and keep the kids out cause there were so many places for them to hide.
It was a shame to see them slowly destroyed and last year they demolished them all as they had been set on fire so many times they'd become dangerous, the complex had been completely sealed up to vehicles by this time and so fire engines could no longer access them to put them out.
It is so nice to see that you caputed them so well before the were no more.
This was one of several kitchen areas on the wards, all basically the same. We used to prepare some awful slop of weetabix and hot milk for the children who were incapable of chewing or feeding themselves, in these kitchens, your picture took me right back there and to the smell of that stuff which I hate to this day, almost 35 years later.
Joe: I'm thinking it might be the weather too, it rains most of the year over here, so there'll be a lot of damp damage probably.

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