Sub-level

This shot is so damn intriguing...... and it looks like a maze!

Looks like a picture out of the National Geographic, of a city that has been uncovered by an archaeologist's dig.

It looks like the sub-basements beneath the Coleseum (sp?).

I was gonna say that!

Motts, just how large IS this area? Is this what was left of several large rooms? Great shot, by the way...

A tunnel? Leading nowhere?
What, storage? Or did someone's plans go wrong?

reminds me of the "Coloseum"

maybe they took "patients" from point "A" to"B" quietly' whithout disturbing others' no one ever knowing where they went- electro-shock' hydropheraphy' what ever-never seen

Maybe shock and hydrotherapy at the same time.

Is that like when you throw a toaster into the hydrotherapy tub? Sounds cruel to me.

Doesn't it, though? Just what you'd expect from these places, of course. . . .

Naaaa, it's no biggie. Looks like the obstacle course in basic training.

I'm very disappointed in myself that this place has intrigued me for about a year and a half and I only get the guts to take a look at the place when there's barely anything left.

At Westborough state we have a similar system under the building. You can still walk around down there.

Dan where in Westboro State? I have been up there how do you get in? Email me Buddytwou@aol.com

I agree, It looks like an archaeological dig to me.

Looks like pretty standard construction for late 18th and 19th century brick foundations. The arched brick "tunnels" are crossed by walls that support the floor above. You can see a similar structure (although on a larger scale) exposed at Fort Pulaski, near Savannah Georgia. During the Civil War, a group of confederate soldiers used the "tunnels" formed by the arches in an escape attempt.

If the tunnels run under the old hall then they are more than likely to be the old wine cellars and coal stores. Its quite common for them to be barrel vaulted.

It looks like an ancient city to me, like Pompei un earthed.

i remember going in here b4 the floor colapsedin basement aswell went back few months later it was like this

this wasent part of the tunnel system

Did those bottom level rooms keep several of those very sick or forgotten hospital patients... ?

since there's nothing I can find to compare I can't understand the scale of this room. it looks to me like it was made out of little LEGO bricks.

The Hall has extensive cellars from what I was told and could see, when I last visited they had stripped the floor out of the main hall
at the front of the building and all you could ssee was the top of the cellar humps, I can't tell from the photo but if this is the front hall I am I so disappionted cause they were all intacked with a steel gurder structure over the top of them, no reason they should have fell in like this and it makes me ask once again if it will ever get the restoration it deserves or just the continuing distruction?

this was the dining room and hard tobelive i know but it did have a floor i know this info because i have a book call great barr,oscott and kingstanding, behind you on this pic are two doors either side of the room one leading to a hallway leading to the stairs to the underground which with no floor u can now see! the other leading to a small room i have many memories of great barr hall although i am only 24 i used to walk through here to get to school at perry beeches i once ventured inside as i intrigued me to think people actually stood where i was but was looking at a totally different thing when i did venure inside and don the dreary sairs to what i called the ''dungeon'' the floor as intac a sort of dip in the floor caused water to flow through maybe a little ell underneath the house used for?????...... i have many photos i am trying to upload from when i went inside and all around gb hall i will post a link when i have uploaded them so please keep ur eyes peeled for them as they are very detailed hope im not treading on any toes with my photos! sorry if i am motts but u are so much more talented than me lol im amateur lol ...

This picture shows the wine and food cellar below the hall, it was huge and consisted of row upon rows of brick arch's. I know this as I spent alot of time down here as kids and we used to play hide and seek in the cellar, it was a very scary place as there was no lights just two shoots that lead to the outside. I have got a lot a memories of this place and lots of stories to tell.