Hi Everyone,
Thought i would post up my first Urbex exploration that happened a couple weeks ago to Denbigh Lunatic Asylum. Myself and a group of 6 friends packed and left at 9am to get breakfast in hollywell in north wales before venturing to the site to start our adventure.
We had looked up the site before hand and mapped out our way in and the starting point and the building we wanted to see that day which took 5 hours, a run in with Elwyn and yet we still didn't get the time to explore the nurses quarters.
With over 4000 images between us and a go pro video which is still being edited we found this place to be a fantastic first outing.
Here is the background history for this site:
The North Wales Hospital (locally known as Denbigh Mental or Denbigh Asylum) is a Grade 2 listed building. Designed by architect Thomas Full James, building started in 1844 and completed in 1848. Once a hospital for people with psychiatric illnesses, at its maximum capacity it could house 200 patients. It is located in Denbigh Denbighshire Wales
Designed by architect Thomas Full James to originally accommodate between 60 and 200 patients, the hospital originally had its own farm and gasworks. Planned for closure by Enoch Powell during the 1960s, it was closed in sections from 1991 to 2002.
Now derelict, on October 31, 2008, Living TV's Most Haunted did a live series, The Village of the Damned on location in the North Wales Hospital which spanned over the course of a week. The producers of the show were criticised by residents of Denbigh for slurs against the town and the hospital.
On 22 November 2008, during work to renovate the building site and convert it to apartments and residential properties, the building caught fire; it was later confirmed that the main hall of the hospital was destroyed. Aron was suspected.
Currently on the buildings at risk register, The 2006 planning permission has lapsed. In 2011 the building was at risk of collapsing and no action was taken by the owners after an urgent works notice was issued, Denbighshire Council had no choice but to carry out repairs on the building which reached £939,000. In 2013, Denbighshire Council voted to press ahead with a compulsory purchase order on the building. A three week Public Inquiry on the challenge to the CPO by the owner completed on the 20th March 2015. A new application for planning permission has been submitted by the Princes Regeneration Trust and would be implemented by the North Wales Building Preservation Trust once the CPO is confirmed and the site has been transferred.
Thought i would post up my first Urbex exploration that happened a couple weeks ago to Denbigh Lunatic Asylum. Myself and a group of 6 friends packed and left at 9am to get breakfast in hollywell in north wales before venturing to the site to start our adventure.
We had looked up the site before hand and mapped out our way in and the starting point and the building we wanted to see that day which took 5 hours, a run in with Elwyn and yet we still didn't get the time to explore the nurses quarters.
With over 4000 images between us and a go pro video which is still being edited we found this place to be a fantastic first outing.
Here is the background history for this site:
The North Wales Hospital (locally known as Denbigh Mental or Denbigh Asylum) is a Grade 2 listed building. Designed by architect Thomas Full James, building started in 1844 and completed in 1848. Once a hospital for people with psychiatric illnesses, at its maximum capacity it could house 200 patients. It is located in Denbigh Denbighshire Wales
Designed by architect Thomas Full James to originally accommodate between 60 and 200 patients, the hospital originally had its own farm and gasworks. Planned for closure by Enoch Powell during the 1960s, it was closed in sections from 1991 to 2002.
Now derelict, on October 31, 2008, Living TV's Most Haunted did a live series, The Village of the Damned on location in the North Wales Hospital which spanned over the course of a week. The producers of the show were criticised by residents of Denbigh for slurs against the town and the hospital.
On 22 November 2008, during work to renovate the building site and convert it to apartments and residential properties, the building caught fire; it was later confirmed that the main hall of the hospital was destroyed. Aron was suspected.
Currently on the buildings at risk register, The 2006 planning permission has lapsed. In 2011 the building was at risk of collapsing and no action was taken by the owners after an urgent works notice was issued, Denbighshire Council had no choice but to carry out repairs on the building which reached £939,000. In 2013, Denbighshire Council voted to press ahead with a compulsory purchase order on the building. A three week Public Inquiry on the challenge to the CPO by the owner completed on the 20th March 2015. A new application for planning permission has been submitted by the Princes Regeneration Trust and would be implemented by the North Wales Building Preservation Trust once the CPO is confirmed and the site has been transferred.
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