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These long curved corridors connected the wards. Locked doors on both of their ends were a security and comfort feature. Sounds and people would be sealed in their respective wards, as the hallways would act like beautiful airlocks; they were so long that it was unlikely that doors would be open on both sides at the same time. Portra 160.

The top floor of the nitrating house was full of switches and breakers for the operation below, each bearing a label and number. Nowadays everything is printed, but when INAAP was built, all these signs were painted by hand.

An example of a typical desk at Buckstaff… messy, but everything’s there. It probably looks much as it did in 2011 when the plant closed.

In the mine offices, a training manual for miners sits open. Here’s how you signal to the surface if you are trapped after a disaster.

Taken from the most forward part of the windlass room to show how the front of the ship opens up from the front wedge. Note the giant anchor chains and foam strapped to the frontmost beam.

Shadows of distant power lines are carried to the concrete by street lights.

Not necessarily a children’s room.

Outside the locker room without the sandwiches and beer… plenty of glass shards, though, if you feel like it.

Every timber pillar was numbered for maintenance purposes.