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Report - North Wales Hospital - Denbigh - Sept 2014

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Mr Beady

Beards
28DL Full Member
I wasn't going to post this report but I thought it's been a while since I've actually contributed and this might give me a boot up the bottom.

The North Wales Lunatic Asylum was the first psychiatric institution built in Wales; construction began in 1844 and completed in 1848 in the town of Denbigh. The U-shaped Tudorbethain style hospital was built due to the spreading word of mistreatment of Welsh people in English asylums; The North Wales Hospital would be a haven for welsh speaking residents to seek treatment without prejudice or a language barrier.

Renovations and extensions were made at the hospital from 1867 until 1956, when the hospital reached its maximum capacity at 1,500 patients living inside her walls and 1,000 staff at hand. Physical treatments such as Cardiazol, malarial treatment, insulin shock treatment, and sulphur based drugs were used and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, and 1941-1942 saw the advent of electro convulsive therapy (ECT) and prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy) treatments.

In 1960, Enoch Powell visited the North Wales Hospital, and later announced the "Hospital Plan" for England and Wales, which proposed that psychiatric care facilities be attached to general hospitals and favored community care over institutional settings. This was the beginning of the end for the North Wales Hospital and others like it; in 1987 a ten year strategy to close the hospital was formed. The North Wales Hospital was closed in sections from 1991 to 2002; most notable was the closure of the main hospital building in 1995.


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ACID- REFLUX

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28DL Full Member
Nice ones mate :thumb

Don"t know how everybody gets sunshine here, i always get bloody rain :)

No Emlyn then :)
 

Mr Beady

Beards
28DL Full Member
Nice ones mate :thumb

Don"t know how everybody gets sunshine here, i always get bloody rain :)

No Emlyn then :)

Think we got lucky, had it been raining I don't think we would of bothered, I was rather ill from the night before, nope no man in a van.
 

slayaaaa

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28DL Full Member
Nice report, looks pretty trashed though, nature has really taken over. That front building looks ace though, shame it's so far from me.
 

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