Staircase

Whoa! Vertigo!!

Unnerving...must be the angle.
Strong sense of standing at the top of these stairs and suddenly being pushed from behind.

Yup, that's the feeling.........

This angle is perfect, gives you a real impression of standing on top of those stairs.

It makes me feel small... and like I REALLY don't want to know what's through that door.

Well, it certainly does leave you with a disconcerted feeling, doesn't it?

For some reason I'm in love with this shot--the angle is just fantastic!

Welcome to Hell....make yourself at home

NOW THATS A SCARY SHOT

wow motts your givin me shivers again! =]

It seems to be one of those places where you feel a strong sense of deja vu. All I can think of when I see this are dreams.

Like a Highway To Hell.

bottom of stairs ,small creature with loud foraging grunts an defensive sqealing sounds against larger & more aggressive unknown creature ,one problem .only one way out........

I wonder how many people went up & down those stairs, who they were, what there lives were like or ,what there thoughts were???????

I Love you LOL Your Photography is amazing.

Come a little deeper, descend a little lower...

There is something not quite right about these stairs. These stairs are very short. It seems as though these stairs were built almost without a reason; almost as if the people who built these stairs had no real idea as to why they were even constructing them in the first place. I think that someone came up with an idea for a short - cut to get some where else but that same short - cut was never really popular with anyone who had to walk up and down these small
stairs. Well that is how I feel about these stairs.

Signed. An American Soldier in Germany.

long with narrow, that would make a great painting staying with the black and white and using titaium and mars for your two colors.
Truly inspiring, minus the crud on the floor, but truly amazing.

i love your site, it is truely wonderful.
It will keep these wonderful buildings alive in your photo's as they were demolished last year as you say despite being sound.
As a regular visitor to this site I had hoped they would regenerate these buildings into appartments but unfortunately they did not and now they are gone forever apart from in you photographs, thank you for saving them in this way.

It looks like a standard 13-step flight of stairs to me. Probably an emergency exit, not the primary stairway.

Dean t's comments were so accurate of the place. I felt compelled to go and help those helpless souls. Many were abandoned because of birth defects, hidden from society by their parents. It was a very sad place, but there were many people, including me, who tried to bring some joy to the lives of those poor helpless creatures, often left by staff to lie on excercise type mats all day, without ever talking to them. Some of the happiest and saddest days of my life. Thanks for your wonderful pictures.

wow expatbrummy - sounds like u actually were there when it was in operation?

i live nearby this place and remember in the latter days having a couple of characters who were often wandering around the area whom were said by local kids to be residents at 'maggies' .

I used to go and nose around often after the hospital closed. It was like time just stood still one day and you still felt like the resident of the room you were in would come and catch you any minute!

The damage was not to the extent shown or described here when i used to explore the place as a kid. Then it was eerie - Id find personal belongings, clothes, beds, wheelchairs etc i even found a collection of christmas cards and drawings.

I kinda gave up going when the security stepped up last went in around 2001/2002 - didnt fancy gettin chased by dogs! Shame i never thought to take a camera huh?!

See i spent alot of my summer of 2004/5 here it creeped me out every time, we found the christmas cards, the old beds and wheelchairs, pretty eerie stuff tbh.

i actually provided support for some of the residents who moved out of here,we did our training up at st margarets at the place was as scary as hell in 2002,it was as if everyone had just up and left,there were wheelchairs etc just abandoned.the place was pretty creepy.