A typical narrow hallway at Birtle.
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A heavy steel security door, taken right off its hinges. This was likely installed after Grafton State School took over the hospital.
Some of the doors had sliding plastic windows, but most of the older ward doors simply had these peep holes drilled through them. The inside was always marked and worn more than the outside.
The entrance to the area where staff could sleep.
Jef throws open the back door of an alley for the trailing photographers and historians.
This is an elevator to move mine car loads of sand to the surface for cleaning and eventually glass production. Below is a flooded equipment vault. In front and behind is a loop through the larger tunnels in the mine. The horizontal braces supported electric cables for the mine carts.
Books in nooks and not getting a look… about the crook with hooks that cooks.
2013. A perfect summer day meets a beautiful old roundhouse on the edge of town.
With the maintenance door open you can see the buckets on in the vertical conveyor.
2015. Water damage hastens the decay of the annex and its stage. Every time I visit this room, the chairs are in different places. Kodak Portra 400 in a Voigtlander Bessa.