High Royds Hospital March 15

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DirtyJigsaw

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Stop number 2 for myself and Sweet Pea was this place. Seeing as everyone had gone there recently, we thought lets go see what all the fuss was about.

Some history from Wiki:

High Royds Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital south of the village of Menston, West Yorkshire, England.

The hospital is located within in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough and was first opened on 8 October 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. The hospital closed in 2003 and the site has since been developed for residential use, some of which is in the old hospital buildings.

The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards.[citation needed] The 300 acre (1.2 km²) estate on which the asylum was built was purchased by the West Riding Justices for £18,000 in 1885 and the large gothic complex of stone buildings was formally opened on 8 October 1888.

The administration building, which is Grade II listed, features an Italian mosaic floor in the main corridor which is intricately decorated with the Yorkshire Rose and black daisies - the latter of which provided inspiration for the title of Black Daisies a television screenplay, filmed at High Royds, which took as its subject the experiences of sufferers of Alzheimers disease.

All i had seen from here was the golden archways in the corridors, the hall and the front external. Other than that i didnt know what to expect.

We got there and the majority of the place has already been converted to new houses and people were living in them already. At one point when in one of the long dark corridors, we looked out the window and about 8ft away is someones front garden.

Enjoyed my visit here, first things first we wanted to get into the clocktower, so thats were we headed.

Heres afew photos i took that day.

16498346737_9941bdafb4_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16498131807_ce577a753a_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16517839688_ec3ccbd2d7_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16498120547_a06e503e59_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16083060584_7f87197f4a_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16085398463_705e5c084f_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16519256849_55c232a9d2_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16519253349_4169bf97d1_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16083041184_c4ec1a3c83_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16704064631_8439988e90_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16704057131_3d79b7d377_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16704036751_4c508430d8_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16705318725_bd932a3c76_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

16085447943_723d1bedaf_b.jpgAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr

Thanks for looking

DirtyJigsaw
 
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Those "white and gold arches" look blue and black to me...

Seriously tho, fantastic report! You should be well proud of that set!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing :)

Hahaha, not that arguement again, first the dress, now the arches....lol.

Thanking you :)

Thanks Brickworx mate
 
I intend on visiting this at the weekend, do I need to worry about security? I went to St John's today but was too late for that place :(
 
You tell him Krela!! Haha

Thanks everyone for the kind words.
Tumble1, I absoulety love corridor shots, esp in a hospital. Thanks :)
 
Another cracking set mate, visited here two weeks ago but still yet to edit the images.

Nice place and great to see that it has escaped the bulldozers.

Dugie
 
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