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What a depressing room.

However, I detect sunlight just outside the window straight ahead.

-- Just trying to feed my positive attitude.
Weebs
Mon 08-07-2006
Oh what I'd give to see this same shot when the building was in it's heyday....
Jude
Mon 08-07-2006
Yes, it appears that there was once wallpaper on these barren walls. You can see little bits and pieces of it.
Puddleboy
Mon 08-07-2006
Is this HDR Motts?
DelbertGrady
Mon 08-07-2006
No, manual blend ;)
Motts
Mon 08-07-2006
419, do u see it?
x voice
Wed 08-09-2006
then it was almost 4:20
Grifspop
Thu 08-10-2006
Weebs, it's like looking out of the gloom and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel...

That 419 is interesting. Is it not the window frames of the building across the way?


GRIFSSSSS!!!! Howareya!?!?!
Tony C.
Thu 08-10-2006
I'm doin great, Tony C., thanks for asking. Nothing like another gallery from Lord Motts to brighten up your day. He just seems to be getting better, what with the angles and the infra red shots, not to mention the black and white shots. Keep up the good work, Motts, you've got quite a following here.
Grifspop
Fri 08-11-2006
YES, I SAW THE 419 IMMEDIATELY TOO
I ALSO SEE OTHER STUFF, BUT IM GOING TO WAIT IT OUT TILL SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONS IT...... ;)
SILKSTER40Z
Sat 08-19-2006
i dont know what silkster40z is talkin about all i see is the 419....
its still a great shot though i love it!!
from under your bed
Sat 08-19-2006
Lots of faces can be seen in the decay on the walls - very cool!
Green Eyed Envy
Sat 09-23-2006
Wonder what this room was used for???? The door frame looks so wide. Mr. Motts, were there any hinges, as if a door was once there?????
NEVERMORE
Wed 11-08-2006
was just kidding ... all i saw was the 419 lol....
silkster40z
Thu 12-28-2006
putos gringos!!!!!!!
thames
Tue 03-27-2007
If cleaned up and restored, and as spacious as it is, it would make a great apartment. There must of been an abundance of fresh air in there. Even when there were windows.
C-Note
Mon 04-16-2007
LOOKING AT ALL THESE PHOTOS OF THE PLACE BRINGS BACK MEMORYS .... I USE TO WALK MY DOG DOWN THERE EVEN WHEN IT WAS RUNING , AND EVEN WHEN IT HAD CLOSED DOWN AN GOT DESTROYD BY ALL PASSING KIDS , I WOULD GO BACK THERE WHEN I WAS ON A LOW ..AND JUST LOOK AT THE PLACE AND THINK .... LOOK HOW THINGS CHANGE IN JUST A SHORT SPACE OF TIME....
JIMMY
Fri 12-28-2007
this is a photo of the main lounge on cartwight home. 60 people used to live here. there was a two foot gap between the beds upstairs in the dormitory.
david salt
Sun 01-06-2008
I just can't image all those people some 60 in one room? If what the poster (David Salt)above said is true. That would be horrible. Plus not much privacy at all. That would be hard to handle. We all need some privacy. Good picture Motts....
blue lamp
Sun 10-26-2008
Alot of 'the homes' as we used to call them were the same shape and size, all stood identical to the next, I regularly visited the site both on my horse and walking my dogs and I used to enjoy the creepy yet settling peace of the place...if that makes and sense.
You'd walk between these seemingly masive buildings, their black empty windows somehow watching your every step.
I was told that alot of people lived in each 'home' and the upstairs floors housed big dormitories, the single story buildings (on the loop as I remember ther were 3 I think) were used for treatments.
Solomon92
Sat 11-01-2008
Hi Blue Lamp, what David Salt wrote is correct. What you have to remember, although it was cramped, and horrible really. If you have ever seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, well, it had a little authenticity about it, patients kept drugged to keep them quiet was accurate but not a lot else. Very few of the residents were sane enough or had the mental capacity to know anything was wrong and could not even dress themselves. Many would scream day and night like savage animals.
expatbrummy
Mon 12-29-2008

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