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General - COUNTY ASYLUMS (Various)

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ASOM

One-Man Urbex Art Army
28DL Full Member
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 County Asylum, plus a few other asylum types, loads of information, and masses of photos, many of which even we had never seen before.

You can find it (tomorrow) at www.countyasylums.co.uk

Here's a one shot each from most of the asylums I've been into over the past 6 years (capped it at 30), to, ummm, get you in the mood. Quality varies wildly, of course. The Scottish ones aren't on the site yet, but they will be eventually.

Most were explores, a few permission visits, many solo, and only one other 28DL forum member (Rookinella) around for any of these (I'm not sociopathic, it has just worked out that way!).

St Andrew's (Norfolk County Asylum) 1814 (annexe 1889)
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Bangour Village (West Lothian District Asylum) 1906
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Bethlem Royal (1930)
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Carlton Hayes (Leicestershire & Rutland County Asylum) 1904
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St Crispin (Northamptonshire County Asylum) 1876
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North Wales Asylum - 1848
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Fairmile (Berkshire, Reading & Newbury County Asylum) 1870
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Cane Hill (2nd Surrey County Asylum) 1883
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Goodmayes (West Ham Borough Asylum) 1901
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Hartwood (Lanarkshire District Asylum) 1895
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Hellingly (East Sussex County Asylum) 1903
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High Royds (2nd West Riding County Asylum) 1888
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Stone House (City of London Asylum) 1866
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Pool Parc (annexe to North Wales Mental Hospital) 1937
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Rosslynlee (East Lothian & Peebles District Asylum) 1864
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Runwell (Joint East Ham & Southend-on-Sea Borough Mental Hospital) 1937
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Severalls (2nd Essex County Asylum) 1913
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St Mary's (Gateshead Borough Asylum) 1914
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Hanwell (Middlesex/London County Asylum) 1831
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St Cadoc's (Newport Borough Asylum) 1906
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St Clement's (Ipswich Borough Asylum) 1870
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St David's (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire & Cardiganshire County Asylum) 1865
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St George's (Northumberland County Asylum) 1859
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St John's (Lincolnshire (and the rest) County Asylum) 1852
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Napsbury (Middlesex County Asylum) 1905
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Talgarth (Joint Brecon & Radnorshire County Asylum) 1903
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Whittingham (4th Lancashire County Asylum) 1873
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Rauceby (Kesteven County Asylum) 1902
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West Park (11th London County Mental Hospital) 1923
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ZerO81

28DL Full Member
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Really nice collection there mate, looking forward to seeing the new site :thumb
 

Speed

Got Epic?
Regular User
Nice set. Looking forward to the return. I'm not sure if you have considered it at all but could be good to have a museum section on the site for documents and artifacts. I'd be more than happy to photograph my stuff so everyone could see.
 

ASOM

One-Man Urbex Art Army
28DL Full Member
Can't recall if we discussed that or not Speed, but yeah, great idea anyway...one we should get around to eventually once the spit and feathers have settled.
 

tumbles

Drama Queen
Staff member
Moderator
Can't recall if we discussed that or not Speed, but yeah, great idea anyway...one we should get around to eventually once the spit and feathers have settled.

I'm hoping people will be keen to donate/contribute anything that'll be good for the site. It'll be nice to finally get it out there tomorrow.. it's only just the beginning. I think I started working on designs about 3 years ago..
 
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