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I would really hate to be exploring a building and get locked in some room in the middle of nowhere. Mr. Motts, have you ever found yourself in a building and was forced to use some "creative problem solving" to find your way out?

Creepy.

what is written on the wall?

Impossible to decipher what is written on the wall... Ugly graffiti being erased slowly by the old paint peeling off. Nice shot Mr Motts.

The 'writing' on the wall looks like some kind of hieroglyph.

Another confining room.
With normal lighting this would be a very depressing place to be held.

What was written on the sign on the door (below the peep hole window)?

scribbings of a poor bored soul ?

Holy hannah Mr. Motts!! I bet you messed a pair of good jockeys (or tighty-whities) that day! I am glad you escaped because if you didn't...we wouldn't have these wonderful Motts galleries to look at!

I can't make out what is written on the wall either. It doesn't look like the English language so perhaps it is just scribblings of a bored soul like Ferdy said.

WOW! glad that you made it out Motts, and that you are diligent about your safety. do yo ever go alone or are you always with a bit of back up? I would always go with someone for sure, safety in pairs!

Cool. OK, does anyone have an answer for this question? I've wondered this forever. ?..(sorry, not picture related,please excuse my burning curiosity about an irrelevant topic.l). Why do people hang doors with the hinges on the "wrong" side (not against the adjoining, perpendicular wall side), which does not allow the door to open back away from the room itself, to sit flat against the wall? Unless this door opens OUT from this perspective, and there's a wall to the left on the other side of it that necessitates that, , it seems like the doorknob should be on the other side. I've noticed that a lot of houses in England have doors that open INTO the room, initially blocking the view of the room AS you enter, and making you actually walk around the door itself to get into the room ):-S...does that make sense? Why would you hang a door so you have to walk AROUND it to get into the room? Odd. --( OK, just realized that in an asylum, maybe it's to allow the person entering to "block" an disturbed patient if they tried to "make a run for it"....?)

...or maybe this is the outside of a room...OK...I'm going away for now....

nvusofmotts,
This probably won't answer your question but in the case of this picture (I'm assuming that this was taken inside the room) the door was hung so that the hinges were on the outside and the patient couldn't take the door off.

Same as at the Crowbar Hotel. Inmates cannot bar the door, be behind it, no way to hold it closed, etc..

Humm...that makes sense, now that I think about it!

NVUSOFMOTTS-

I work for the police, and in the custody suites, the doors open outwards... It helps us to stay safe when inserting or extracting a violent prisoner, as we can perform the physical insert/exctrac procedure, and simply slam the door shut without getting our feet/hands/massive ego's stuck... Or leaving any other officers in there ;)

Motts thats really freaky thought still. you come prepared but dont you ever get freaked out that the doors will shut and you wont get out? thank goodness someone asked along time ago if you bring people with you. still i worry :S

TIny, that you for your answer. Makes alot of sense.