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The autopsy room held three slabs, with a decent amount of equipment left behind.
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Now this is cool ! One of those porcelain tables would make an ideal fish cleaning table.
J-131274
Tue 05-01-2007
Musta been a danged big place to have the potential to have three autopsy tables in use at once.
Lynne
Tue 05-01-2007
How long ago was the morgue still operating? Some of the equipment doesn't look that old, or at least it doesn't seem to have fared too badly.
Atlas
Tue 05-01-2007
Eeesh! Views of the future!
Janice
Tue 05-01-2007
Can you imagine dead bodies lying on these tables some time ago? This place still looks pretty good.

Should give this room to Leatherface so he can do his crazy experiments on people.
Ozzy
Tue 05-01-2007
This looks like a screenshot from a movie! an awesome movie! nice shot motts
Live
Wed 05-02-2007
Atlas - I couldn't pin down any dates, but I'd say the place hasn't been empty for more than a few years.
Motts
Wed 05-02-2007
whats up with the toilet tank high above the sink in the corner? all kidding aside is that how that old plumbing was set up?
figusmakem
Wed 05-02-2007
Wow.
desmet
Wed 05-02-2007
I love the tables!
Stacy
Wed 05-02-2007
It looks the the high mounted tank was to flush out the sink below, which I guess was for washing surgical equipment.
Richard Davies
Thu 05-03-2007
Oooo this room gives me the creepies...
JAVA
Fri 05-04-2007
Yeah, that's a slops sink. a sink with a flush as well as taps.

and yeah, the high cistern is fairly typical of old British plumbing. the tiolets at my school had cisterns all the way up there. i guess it provides more gravity and more force to the water.
Seventh
Tue 05-08-2007
Great shot Motts.What was in the bottles if anything?
Jason
Wed 05-09-2007
Various fluids and chemicals commonly found in a laboratory.
Motts
Wed 05-09-2007
surprised that all the bottles are still in the room
Joe
Sun 05-13-2007
big mortuary, big soap dispenser! (ahh, somebody had to do it)
kb
Thu 06-14-2007
Ok maybe I was wrong about the blood thing on the floor in the other picture. Is it just me or does that look like coagulated blood under the front of the middle table? These tables don't look like metal so I don't thing it would be rust. And the pattern being more around the tables as opposed to under them is a little unseteling don't you think. "Great Pictures by the way"
Trackie
Fri 09-07-2007
Mmmm....Beer.................
Mark
Tue 09-11-2007
I would explore the hell out of a place like this!
Wormfood
Tue 09-11-2007
you should of took stuff
trevor
Sun 09-23-2007
My family lived in a 30's house and we had a toilet with a raised tank. Black as coal wrought iron with a wooden handle hanging from a chain..We never "Flushed"...we always "Pulled the chain"...And we lived in Middlesex..Ashford
BritishGirlie
Sun 10-28-2007
This room looks so Scary.
Deb
Wed 11-21-2007
Wallpaper please :)
Miracula
Sat 11-24-2007
WE WANT WALLPAPER PLEASE??????
Liz & Deb
Tue 12-11-2007
These are awesome! I always wanted an autopsy table for a dining table.
Viveka
Sun 01-06-2008
I'm curious as to why the tables are so low... Not that I would want to work on bodies at all, but to do so hunched over would be miserable.
Silver
Wed 01-16-2008
What we do with bodies
Who no longer hold a soul
Trying to make sense
Of how
Life takes its toll..........
Amazed
Sat 03-08-2008
An autopsy factory!
Lithium
Fri 04-18-2008
Lynne: A big place, or some very crappy doctors! ;)
Joe
Tue 08-05-2008
i wonder whats in the brown bottles
monkey
Sun 09-07-2008
wow, great shots, very fascinating for a mortuary science student hmmmmm
Harmony
Sun 09-14-2008
The morgue was in use up until they moved to the new hospital. I was in a little building on it's own and very cold and depressing
L
Thu 10-23-2008
I think autopsy rooms like these are still used. This could have been used in the 70:ies - or yesterday. I live close to morgues I worked in, and they have decayed like this in less than 20 years. Remember that the morgue is the last place to get any fundings!
H.B.
Wed 02-25-2009
This is awesome! I wonder what is in those medicine bottles? I would of been snooping through everything!
Jenny
Thu 06-04-2009
a little bleach, some elbow grease and that room would be as good as new - I just want to say that I stumbled across this site awhile ago and keep coming back hoping for a new gallery - I so envy Mr. Motts. He is doing what I would love to instead of sitting at this desk day after day. But I am going out this weekend searching with two digital camera, a tripod, some lenses. . . . KEEP UP THE NICE WORK!
eldokid@aol.com
Fri 08-07-2009
Gosh those are really nice tables, dinner anyone.
scone
Sun 05-30-2010

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