What kind of building is this and where??

[d.weaving]

Well all I want is that ghost Kirsty to join the two b^&&&&gers I already have..ones crawling up me leg and ones just been on the phone???
Derek.

[DudleyWinchurch]

There may be a simpler explanation for this strange picture.  I remember a time when you had to deliberately advance the film before taking  another picture.  A little more recent technology than changing the plates but similar problems associated.

I think the picture is a "double exposure", possibly unintended.

The main picture looks like a reused private chapel, possibly high up in a timber-framed building, causing the warping to the floor.  It looks as though its current occupant would be a single (possibly fairly old) lady and the fan-fold pictures and the pictures on the right-hand dresser look like religious icons.  The door  shapes and the empty tryptich frame at the front all suggest possibly Russian or similar to me.  The chapel would probably be accessed from behind the photographers viewpoint, the ornate doors at the far end leading to a very small robing area where religious artefacts would have been kept for the room's original use.  The detailed paraphernalia all belong to this picture.

There are no obvious windows and yet there are consistent shadows from another picture of a windowed room underlying this, and I think the dress "wedding or ballgown" belongs to that picture too but stands out as it would otherwise fall in the middle of a blank wall.  If it were a mirror, the altar rails would be reflected too.

Or I could be entirely wrong ...?

[Gadget]

I do like a mystery 

And photography is one of my favourite mediums (not psychic  )There have always been lots of tricks in photography - remember the fairies 

Looking forward to more info, Martian

Derek - don't turn around, there's................... 

[martianuk]

The photo was once in the house of two spinster sisters (b 1896 and 1898ish), one of which was a spiritualist/clairvoyant (via palm reading) and believed in all things weird and the supernatural (even though we're questioning the presence an apparation, I kid you not!).

There are def. 2 beds in the room and perhaps a covered table next to the far one?

Ah! Here's the third neg: a cat in a highchair???    

[martianuk]

here

[Gadget]

The photo was once in the house of two spinster sisters (b 1896 and 1898ish), one of which was a spiritualist/clairvoyant (via palm reading) and believed in all things weird and the supernatural (even though we're questioning the presence an apparation, I kid you not!).

Now we're getting closer to the truth

[bearkat]

Are we?

[d.weaving]

SEE ...I told you I felt spooked

[martianuk]

I'm told that when you look at the original neg, it's clear that there are stairs leading down from the left set of rails and that the ceiling has a dome in it, which would let light through - casting shadows?

Added: personally, I think a second set of rails leading down is no more than a small table with fancy legs behind the room rails. Perhaps it is a crypt... Those are very tall doors. Would there be a step up to get through them?