On a beautiful sunny day, a day off work, what shall we do today, Lets go to Denbigh! i pipe. Ive been wanting to revisit for a long time, the last time my battery died and never getting over that trauma, i made sure it would never happen again. I now have four..to be on the safe side....
An hour later me and AltDayOut are driving down the motorway, me as giddy as a child going to the fair. I am completely in awe of this magnificent building, even from a distance when I spied her beyond the fields, there is a powerful dominating presence about her. A shiver ran down my spine and my skin tingles with goosebumps.
Asylums are definately one of my favourite explores, I feel an affinity with them, Alt would prob nod his head in agreement and understanding especially some months With it being a spontaneous last minute decision we only had a couple of hours and we didnt get to see as much as we would have liked,so a revisit is on the cards.
Brief history; Designed by the arcitect Thomas Fulljames, build started 1844, finished four years later. This was a much needed psychiatric hospital for North Wales because some patients in need of this kind of care only spoke welsh and were sent to english speaking asylums, which you can imagine would make their condition much worse.The land, twenty acres was donated by Joseph Ablett of Llanber hall and later money for the clock tower was donated by his wife in memory of him. The hospital was built to house 200 patients but as time went by with overcrowding extentions and renovations were done. By 1956 it was at maximum capacity holding 1,500 patients with 1,000 staff on hand.Experimental treatments were carried out on patients during its history and in 1941 Electrics shock therapy was introduced. Sections of it were closed between 1991 and 2001. From october 31st 2008 the debatable Most haunted filmed a week long special on the asylum called the village of
the damned, making a padded cell and drawing pentagrams in two rooms in the nurses quarters so they could summon the devil.Unfortunately in November 2008 an arson attack destroyed the main hall.
Some demolition sadly has occurred.
On with the pics
Didnt venture into here for obvious reasons
Unfortunately some demo has happened
Our exit was timed perfectly, as we were leaving across a field a dark jeep was driving around the perimeter so that was a close call . Luckily aswell we didnt have a run in with beardy
Thanks for looking
An hour later me and AltDayOut are driving down the motorway, me as giddy as a child going to the fair. I am completely in awe of this magnificent building, even from a distance when I spied her beyond the fields, there is a powerful dominating presence about her. A shiver ran down my spine and my skin tingles with goosebumps.Asylums are definately one of my favourite explores, I feel an affinity with them, Alt would prob nod his head in agreement and understanding especially some months
With it being a spontaneous last minute decision we only had a couple of hours and we didnt get to see as much as we would have liked,so a revisit is on the cards. Brief history; Designed by the arcitect Thomas Fulljames, build started 1844, finished four years later. This was a much needed psychiatric hospital for North Wales because some patients in need of this kind of care only spoke welsh and were sent to english speaking asylums, which you can imagine would make their condition much worse.The land, twenty acres was donated by Joseph Ablett of Llanber hall and later money for the clock tower was donated by his wife in memory of him. The hospital was built to house 200 patients but as time went by with overcrowding extentions and renovations were done. By 1956 it was at maximum capacity holding 1,500 patients with 1,000 staff on hand.Experimental treatments were carried out on patients during its history and in 1941 Electrics shock therapy was introduced. Sections of it were closed between 1991 and 2001. From october 31st 2008 the debatable Most haunted filmed a week long special on the asylum called the village of
the damned, making a padded cell and drawing pentagrams in two rooms in the nurses quarters so they could summon the devil.Unfortunately in November 2008 an arson attack destroyed the main hall.
Some demolition sadly has occurred.
On with the pics
Didnt venture into here for obvious reasons
Unfortunately some demo has happened
Our exit was timed perfectly, as we were leaving across a field a dark jeep was driving around the perimeter so that was a close call . Luckily aswell we didnt have a run in with beardy
Thanks for looking
