Old film laying on the floor of the projection booth / cutting room of an abandoned cinema.
A view over the seat rows at an abandoned cinema / theatre
A tiny little cuble office, barely enough room for the desk and the phone in an abandoned college.
Two mannequins lay discarded in the window of a boutique in an abandoned mental asylum, one with a worrying hole through its chest!
A set of stairs next to a copper door in an abandoned mental asylum.
A shot looking out over the now mouldy and moss covered windows and stairs at a fire escape at an abandoned hotel.
Looking down the main central aisle of the lower tier of an abandoned theatre / cinema
Laying on the floor (again!, need that right angle!) gave a nice view up to the stage here, even a wee bit of broken glass just in front of the lens there. I wonder what shows went on in this hall once upon a time, some of them could have been quite good. I went wandering through the side doors there which both lead up to the back entrance of the chapel above this hall, but also lead to the top of the stage area to give access to curtain pulleys, stage lighting, and lots of really quite elaborate kit up there. This place was geared up for some really quite decent productions if you look at what facilities and equipment they had available
Looking up at the altar and the surrounding area at this abandoned nursing home. This chapel was quite unusual in that it had a total of 7 altars, one main one as seen in this shot and then 6 littler ones around the outside which i have a pic or two of to upload later.
A wheelchair is left in the corner of the abandoned nursing home’s chapel, right under a commemorative stone plaque which proclaims in latin: / / “Jacobus prim antist paslet me posuit in honorem s joseph qui speciem habit apostolorum”
This room belonged to Janet Pratt, though what became of her when this site was vacated i have no idea. Most of the rooms down this end of the nursing home had name plaques on the door with a little doodle underneath, this particular one having a bunch of flowers in a vase.
One of the few places that was accessible in this castle was one of the stair cases, and this was only because it was made of stone. The rooms jutting out from this which were wooden floored had vanished downwards in most cases, and in others i didn’t want to risk walking on them after seeing how stable the floors were.
This is looking up into the main entrance of the caste, and even here you can see that beyond the door the upper floors have caved in. I love the ornate windows and ceiling in this part of the building though.
Looking up and out through this window i loved the fact that i could see two sets of stairs, the ones i was ascending and the fire escape ones outside. The fire escape ones will have been added later in the life of this castle when it was used a hospital along with some supporting buildings in the grounds from 1927 to 2002.
The drain pipes at the castle could do with a little work, they are snapped off in a lot of place, probably on purpose to stop people climbing up and accessing the floors within.
Looking up from the middle landing of the staircase just gives you even more ornate and wonderful things to look at, different colours of marble, the lovely colours of the wood and the nice reflection in the glass. I really do like this stair case!
This is the grand fire place in the main reception of this hotel / hospital. I imagine with a roaring fire going on in this it would have been quite the welcome in from the bitter cold of the Scottish countryside on a winter’s evening.
The pillars here have very distinctive bee striping round them to attract attention, unlike pillars elsewhere on the site. Pillars elsewhere on the site don’t have a four storey tower resting on them though, so i guess they were just scared that someone might drive a forklift or something into these ones and bring the tower down. This place looks like the landing dock on some spaceship to me though, so im pleased they added the colouring, it gives it a nice effect
I had to get a quick close up of that phone, the colour of plastic it was just worked so well with the greens of the plant life around it i felt.
Strangely this asylum had its own indoor pool, a very unusual addition but also testament to the wondferful architect G.T. Hines who we have to thank for this glorious establishment. This is inside of the asylum with the prettiest admin block, as show in this picture and more of this asylum can be found here if you are curious. / As this was only a tour to show two other explorers around the site i didnt take many pictures myself this time, so just a small series on this one, this being the last of which.
I’m hoping this chair was put here after the place closed, because otherwise I’m not sure why there would be a need for a chair staring straight into the gents toilets!
This chair stands in the reception hallway of this building, waiting to be used again, though this is very unlikely. it did however provide me with 5 minutes of fun popping wheelies in it while i waited for one of my friends to take a photography further down the room.
These are actually door mock ups, inside one of the buildings at the abandoned hospital. The police uses some of these buildings for training, and these frames and doors here are used to practice with the door battering ram, which was laying in one of the corners of this room.
Stood either side of the chimney from the boiler room are two magnificent towers, one a clock tower and the other a wind vain. It is unusual to see a complete tower just for the purpose of telling you wind direction, normally that would just be done with something atop the clock tower, but i guess the architect was struggling to maintain the symmetry that the main building has throughout at this site.
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