Scorched

You know Motts.... I did have a final to study for tonight, that plan just went out the window when you posted this gallery ;)

Hey, y'know, it's kind of cool. . . Those trees or plants or whatever that are growing through the top of the roof almost look like smoke. Sadly poetic, don't you think, considering the fact that this building was lost to smoke so long ago. . .

New pics!! Thanks as always Mr. Motts, hope I get through these before my power goes out!! (windy) Ed from Oregon

Yay!! I've had a feeling for a couple of days now that you were putting up another one Motts!

SQUEE!! New gallery! YEA!

LOVE THE NEW PICS!!!!!!!!! thanks Motts

from All of us in France

awesome! something good for my otherwise drab day. :D

New Pics! New outlook for tonite!

Yesssss!

Merry Christmas to me...
Merry Christmas to me...

Ahh a new gallery is the best present ever...thanks Motts!

Yayyy! I agree with Jen, this is a great present. Signing cards will just have to wait.

I have finals too and i just realised this is new. im going to have to procrastinate a bit.

wow motts in gourgous serously

WOW! I was just checking in after a bummer of a christmas and what did I find!!!! THANKS!

I couldn't have resisted taking a quick peek in this building. I love the trees growing through the roof, it looks just like smoke as girlJaye pointed out.

yaaa! after christmas treat! now thats what I like to find in my stocking.thanx motts!

Totally Amazing! Another great gall,ery!

A spanish program tv (Cuarto Milenio) show this website last sunday night.

Awesome one, all my congrats for it!

Today is the one year anniversery I first appeared on this cool site. And to tell you the truth, Motts has done a lot of very cool things on this website since I first appeared.

Rock on Motts.

Are those trees or large bushes growing up through the exposed rafters ?

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

Are those trees growing out of the roof... Cool!

I sit here listening to The Orson Wells version of Dracula on the Mercury Theater on Line.
How fitting

cameron house wasnt destroyed by fire. the health authority realised that the slated had some valus, so they stripped the roof of and sold the lot!!!

it´s like a Tarkovski´s scene, i love it

What an incredible photo....

i used to live in goosnargh and know whittingham very well i used to play in the grounds which were luvly the buildings were great to look at to i just wish that i took some photos of it before they started to pull it down

Thats' really neat.

Invokes some strange feelings

insane!

the roof was removed - for the valuble slate & lead. it was not burned.

wow! somewhere that's actually near me!!! i must live 20 mins away from this place

I wonder how many lives were lost within this confinement? How does one justify fourty or fifty years in a hospital withonly a blank folder to state their treatment during hte time they where there.

My nan's house is about a ten minute walk away from here, I don't know how many times I walked past here to go feed the ducks in the pond when I little.

It's a good job you got these photo's too, because it's all gone now, they've been knocking it down this year and last year. I think there's flats there now.

Good subject for IR photography. I actually stayed in this building for a year in the mid eighties when it housed the Bowland Unit, which was a therapeutic community headed by Carl Atkinson and Tessa Allen. While I can't say my time there was very happy it is somehow sad and melancholic to see it in this state. Yet ruins can be very beautiful.

Memories: There's a complex network of tunnels beneath all the buildings and it was pretty spooky and atmospheric exploring them with pipes letting off the occasional spurt of steam. On a couple of occasions I had to rescue a bird from the loft space, which was surprisingly clean, didn't seem old at all. Strange to see the old theatre again where we got to play the odd game of squash. The grounds were very beautiful and extensive, amazing in autumn. The duck pond was a favourite refuge, feeding the ducks. It froze over almost completely both winters I was there, to the point where it was safe to walk on. Just a short distance away is Chingle Hall, reputedly one of the most haunted houses in England. It was empty during this period and I got to do a little ghost hunting, even staying overnight, alone as no one else would come with me. Nothing happened sadly, no ghost of John Wall, no poltergeists. Some of the rooms did have a rather creepy, oppressive vibe though.

Interesting place, interesting area.

Ah, I remember now, it was badminton we played in the main building's theatre not squash. All this feels long ago and far away.

Incidentally, for the very best aerial views of this place try using "eye on earth" and select 3D building. Much more detailed than google earth.