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I wonder what those "x"-'s mean. Did there seem to be any pattern as to how they were placed?
GirlJaye
Thu 12-14-2006
The floor looks as tho water is flowing down the hall.
secretattic1
Fri 12-15-2006
Were these patient rooms?
Chrissie
Fri 12-15-2006
Were these patient rooms or seclusion rooms? They are very small.....
Long Island Irish
Fri 12-15-2006
The X's just look like tagging to me... they're reasonably stylized, not like hurried construction markings or such.
Adam
Sat 12-16-2006
these are probably isolation rooms for the naughty
Joe
Sat 12-16-2006
Isn't it sad that countless lives were wasted away in these places for like of Xanax, Prozac and the other wonder drugs we have today.
Little Dora
Sat 12-16-2006
Hmm... keep away , bad doors?
You can't tell if there are halways or rooms behind'em.
Lia
Sat 12-16-2006
I will say what some might not want to say maybe the X is what they what tohave removed durning the renovations. I know it's a horrable thought but the building will still be there but some pieces will be gone.
Ikim
Sun 12-17-2006
Ill Take door number 2... uhhh I mean X
silkster40z
Thu 12-28-2006
Maybe X's tag areas that have had the fixtures and fittings removed. I have seen this in old prisons here in Australia. When they remove the furniture and handles and copper piping (which is expensive) they tag it as stripped.
ozpsychnurse
Thu 01-04-2007
They could be roman numerals. See, I was far too impressionable to watch V.
Felyne
Wed 01-10-2007
I think it's just another explorer marking the trail, for a later group to follow. The X's might mean these rooms are more interesting.
Puddleboy
Wed 01-10-2007
Straight-edge doors.
Pidgey
Sat 01-13-2007
WOW! thats alot of picture to absorb, I love the angles! Ill be staring at this thing forever trying to get it. It reminds me of when I was a kid and used to walk through the house looking down into a mirror looking up. (FUN) good job Motts! as usual!
kaycebane
Sun 01-14-2007
Cold storage lockers in the kitchens I think? The 'X's in Whittingham do seem to be a bit random - why bother?
A
Mon 02-05-2007
I'm a fire fighter, and I know that for search and rescue, you use an X system to mark a room. For example, if a search is in progress in a room, you would put a slash. Then after you complete your search, you'd make another slash to make an X.

This is interesting, however, I doubt if there was a building fire there, they would be looking for anyone. Perhaps the marking is old...
Or as someone else suggested, the rooms had been stripped of copper fittings etc.
Havoc737903
Mon 02-05-2007
These two rooms look scary !

What is wrong with them ?

Are there more rooms like these two ?

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
Joseph
Sun 03-18-2007
Not trying to sound pessimistic or anything, but X's on door also do mean that the plague or even the dead were in rooms or even houses.
C-Note
Wed 04-11-2007
many many moons ago these would have been the ubiquitous padded cell. obviously the doors arent original. drug advancements eant that the padded cell was out of use many many decades ago, these small rooms were all offices and staff rooms or store rooms by the 1970's the x's might have amore recent explanation. after wjhittingham shut., lancashire police used the empty buildings to train its dog teams in search techniques, so the x's might have indicated that the rooms had been searched in some exercise.
johnr
Fri 06-08-2007
they mean its dangerous
michael
Wed 01-16-2008
These look they could have been seclusion rooms. there is double locks on the doors
Katie
Wed 02-06-2008
In Stephen King's "The Stand",a giant 'X' on a doorway meant that the "switching-off committee' had already been there and you needn't check any appliances left on prior to generator start-up.
Also after KATRINA an 'X' on a door meant people had been removed from that house.
Guitorman
Fri 03-07-2008
The history and enchantment of these old buildings is amazing. I just don't know why we continue to tear down historical buidings instead of renovate. Seems like it wouldn't cost any more in the long run.
Lady Chadwicke
Mon 03-24-2008
The X's are too do with asbestos.

Rooms checked - or rooms with asbestos, that sort of thing.
El
Thu 07-03-2008
this was the avondale ward for the lunnys in was padded cells
len
Tue 07-08-2008
Whats behind door #1?
How about door #2?
Nothing good, I presume....
EllieR
Sun 08-10-2008
El is correct. The X's had to do with abatement for either lead or asbestos or both. As for the rooms I would wager that they were seculsion rooms. Interesting that the handles have been removed.
Joel
Sun 08-31-2008
I just want to agree with one of the above commentors about why is it that we destroy these historic buildings rather than renovate them. It is such a waste.
Lisa
Sat 12-06-2008

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