asylums

The history Im sure we all know it by now but here it is again copied from County Asylums mainly becauss i cant be arsed typing it all. The first Welsh asylum for the mentally ill was opened in Swansea at May Hill in 1815, followed in 1844 by Vernon House in Briton Ferry. The Glamorgan County...

The Linear Corridor Plan My Part 1 report visible HERE introduces my roadtrip last summer with @KismetJ and covers the first widespread wave of Irish asylum design; the prison-like radial corridor plan of the 1830s. Now we move onto the 1850s-60s. The 1845 Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act was...

Background 2 Eejits 17 Asylums You all know I love a good roundup post and I’m incapable of being concise. Well this one is going to be so long I’m still having to split it into three parts. Over the past few years, @KismetJ and I have done an asylum trip to Scotland (report here) and several...

Was just a quick visit to belvoir park hospital so didn't get much photos hopefully stay longer at next visit little bit about the site opened as the Purdysburn Fever Hospital in 1906. The facility became known as Montgomery House in 1953 and it then became Belvoir Park Hospital in the 1960s...

Hi all!, this is a place I've been meaning to explore for quite sometime now, only one block known as 'East Villa' remains, the rest of the complex has been demolished to make way for housing. First a little history... Barrow Hospital was built in 1938, with construction starting in 1934. It was...

Hey everyone, Me and my partner are visiting Newquay (TR7) this following weekend for a few days and given it's such a beautiful area wondered if there were any current derelict sites to explore nearby? I've looked over the posts on here but the only recent threads are relating to one...

hello, are there any asylums or hospitals in north Dorset or anywhere nearby?

I'm really new to this but wanting to visit and explore an abandoned asylum tomorrow, had a look at a few online but struggling to find out which ones are still standing? Was looking at maybe Hellingly or west park? Does anyone know if they're still worth visiting? Or can anyone recommend the...

I actually sorted out these photos quite a few years ago now but never got round to posting them up. After seeing some people had been here recently picking over the rubble it reminded me that they were still lurking in a long forgotten flickr set and now, almost 10 years since i first visited...

Well, the brand spanking new County Asylums page (you remember the old one fondly, I'm sure) will finally launch tomorrow - lots of hard work (mostly for others, including Tumbles and TheTimechamber, as well as Pete, who created the original site), but we have new histories written for every...

Was wondering what if any old asylums are still standing in the north east of England . New to this and not sure where to start . Thanks in advance .

I couldn't find this mentioned on the site anywhere,I did search,honest.:D Came across a website today that indexes asylums.Link here.

I posted them both in the one report due to they're both basically the same place albeit different names and I didn't take many pics. Larundel - Plan’s were put forward in 1938 to build another psychiatric hospital in the east to take some of the strain off the over populated and outdated...

Whilst browsing digg.com I came across this link and thought it was worth sharing, I'm not sure if I posted it in the correct place but thought it fit best here. Afflicted: 11 Abandoned American Hospitals and Asylums "Open" for has quite alot of intersting information and its worth reading...

Well, an interesting finish to an interesting weekend. Me, Rooks and Turkey met up with Podge at a working cold war (and older) air base, for a flight around the South coast for a bit of site spotting and general flying around... Started with the mint hangars, the sirens and lights as...