Evening folks,
I know Denbigh/North Wales Hospital comes up quite a lot on here but id thought id share my experience. The grade ii listed building was built in 1848 and was the first asylum of its kind in Wales. It was ordered to be built due to Welsh patients having to go to English asylums, with the Welsh language being more common in those days English staff couldn't understand Welsh patients which led to mistreatment. It was a welcomed build for families of the patients at that time. It was designated for closure in 1960 by MP Enoch Powell, the site eventually shut down in 1995. In the 1930s lobotomies were carried out and in 1942 one patient actually died from this procedure. These procedures were replaced in the 1960s but antipsychotic medicine.
I first visited this place on valentines day believe it or not and unfortunately is wasn't with a gorgeous lady friend, nope, it was with my hairy, Vern Troyer looking mate! Anyway, we looked around for about an hour before heading home as Vern was missing he's new car that we'd just dumped in a lane somewhere. On that occasion we only covered about 10% of the site so a trip back was definitely on the cards.
So after visiting a local abandoned school last week id got the bug again and spoke to a few people about returning to Denbigh and exploring the place properly. With a McDonalds breakfast inside us we set out on the 2 hour drive into Wales, we broke this up with a pit stop on top of The Horseshoe Pass. After arriving at the site we quickly got our gear together and started exploring.
As we explored the site I was quickly beginning to realise this was one of the worst id visited in terms of deterioration. Roofs, ceilings, floors and walls had all collapsed or were missing. This obviously makes you think carefully about where you tread, especially on the upper floors where you could feel the soft rotten wood below your feet. I was also aware that things above might collapse, again this never happened but was always in the back of my mind. There wasn't much left in the buildings, a wheelchair, bed, T.V and a couple of reports on patients were all we really found but this still didn't stop us enjoying what was a very good explore.
The atmosphere inside the asylum was not as bad as iv felt before. Inside the main site there wasn't any eerie noises and it felt quite comfortable exploring. We saw another 3 groups there while walking around and it seemed a very relaxed place. It changed though when we went over to the nurses house, banging doors echoed through the building as we approached and when we stepped in, the smell was horrendous. This really changed the experience and we all seemed more alert not that we'd admit it at the time. The deeper we got into this part of the site the more relaxed we'd become, the doors banging was the wind which had picked up throughout the day and the smell was damp carpet and wallpaper. This building was in much better condition with a lot of things still intact, not much in there, but still good to have a look around.
I was quite disappointed with my photos to be honest but here's the best ones.
Enjoy
The Grade ii Listed Building
A lonely wheelchair
A peeling corridor
Lovely décor outside some of the dorms/cells
More dorms/cells
The balanced window
New roof on the listed building
The nurses house
There was no sign of Elwyn
The rear of one of the buildings
Patients bed
Collapsed roof
I'm sure this building was all one at some stage
Not sure whether this was a bath or toilet
Retro T.V
Patient report from 1984
Collapsed roof was bringing the walls down in this room
Three stories of dorms/cells
Treatment room
Fancy a bath?
Final resting place
I know Denbigh/North Wales Hospital comes up quite a lot on here but id thought id share my experience. The grade ii listed building was built in 1848 and was the first asylum of its kind in Wales. It was ordered to be built due to Welsh patients having to go to English asylums, with the Welsh language being more common in those days English staff couldn't understand Welsh patients which led to mistreatment. It was a welcomed build for families of the patients at that time. It was designated for closure in 1960 by MP Enoch Powell, the site eventually shut down in 1995. In the 1930s lobotomies were carried out and in 1942 one patient actually died from this procedure. These procedures were replaced in the 1960s but antipsychotic medicine.
I first visited this place on valentines day believe it or not and unfortunately is wasn't with a gorgeous lady friend, nope, it was with my hairy, Vern Troyer looking mate! Anyway, we looked around for about an hour before heading home as Vern was missing he's new car that we'd just dumped in a lane somewhere. On that occasion we only covered about 10% of the site so a trip back was definitely on the cards.
So after visiting a local abandoned school last week id got the bug again and spoke to a few people about returning to Denbigh and exploring the place properly. With a McDonalds breakfast inside us we set out on the 2 hour drive into Wales, we broke this up with a pit stop on top of The Horseshoe Pass. After arriving at the site we quickly got our gear together and started exploring.
As we explored the site I was quickly beginning to realise this was one of the worst id visited in terms of deterioration. Roofs, ceilings, floors and walls had all collapsed or were missing. This obviously makes you think carefully about where you tread, especially on the upper floors where you could feel the soft rotten wood below your feet. I was also aware that things above might collapse, again this never happened but was always in the back of my mind. There wasn't much left in the buildings, a wheelchair, bed, T.V and a couple of reports on patients were all we really found but this still didn't stop us enjoying what was a very good explore.
The atmosphere inside the asylum was not as bad as iv felt before. Inside the main site there wasn't any eerie noises and it felt quite comfortable exploring. We saw another 3 groups there while walking around and it seemed a very relaxed place. It changed though when we went over to the nurses house, banging doors echoed through the building as we approached and when we stepped in, the smell was horrendous. This really changed the experience and we all seemed more alert not that we'd admit it at the time. The deeper we got into this part of the site the more relaxed we'd become, the doors banging was the wind which had picked up throughout the day and the smell was damp carpet and wallpaper. This building was in much better condition with a lot of things still intact, not much in there, but still good to have a look around.
I was quite disappointed with my photos to be honest but here's the best ones.
Enjoy
The Grade ii Listed Building
A lonely wheelchair
A peeling corridor
Lovely décor outside some of the dorms/cells
More dorms/cells
The balanced window
New roof on the listed building
The nurses house
There was no sign of Elwyn
The rear of one of the buildings
Patients bed
Collapsed roof
I'm sure this building was all one at some stage
Not sure whether this was a bath or toilet
Retro T.V
Patient report from 1984
Collapsed roof was bringing the walls down in this room
Three stories of dorms/cells
Treatment room
Fancy a bath?
Final resting place
One of the few to not run into Elwyn lol
