Hello, this is the first outing I did. I was with a couple of mates and we went there without much of a clue of what we were doing really other than thinking we wanted to get in. One mate showed a little more willing than us other two and got us in the place (really easily to be fair).
Talgarth Asylum is obviously really well documented here and on other sites, but here's a little blurb:
The asylum was opened in 1904 under the name Brecon and Radnor Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum. It served the local counties initially and then widened its admittance area to accommodate other counties. It also later admitted patients from Cardiff as a hospital there was used to house soldiers during WW2. It closed in 1999, and the Chief Medical Officer picked it up for not much over £200k. Local businesses operated from there till 2009.
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We spent a good few hours in the place, but before we even got there we accidentally stumbled upon the old Bronllys hospital site behind the new Bronllys hospital, and had a good hour there first. There are a couple of shots from that site below too. Not bad for a first outing. We picked up a nail in our tyre when leaving site, and that may be attributable to the local vigilante who walks his dogs round the place having a pop at anyone getting into Talgarth Asylum. We were proper cautious walking around the interiors as the buildings are proper knackered. There's not much left there compared to earlier reports I've read about the site, but that wasn't an issue - the dereliction of the place is something to behold. We made sure we weren't spotted from the road. On a future visit I'd like to get up the tower to take some photos, but that'd be an earlier visit to be happy we were unnoticed.
It's a path well-trod and well-photographed, but cheers for looking:
Bronllys
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Talgarth
Talgarth Asylum is obviously really well documented here and on other sites, but here's a little blurb:
The asylum was opened in 1904 under the name Brecon and Radnor Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum. It served the local counties initially and then widened its admittance area to accommodate other counties. It also later admitted patients from Cardiff as a hospital there was used to house soldiers during WW2. It closed in 1999, and the Chief Medical Officer picked it up for not much over £200k. Local businesses operated from there till 2009.
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We spent a good few hours in the place, but before we even got there we accidentally stumbled upon the old Bronllys hospital site behind the new Bronllys hospital, and had a good hour there first. There are a couple of shots from that site below too. Not bad for a first outing. We picked up a nail in our tyre when leaving site, and that may be attributable to the local vigilante who walks his dogs round the place having a pop at anyone getting into Talgarth Asylum. We were proper cautious walking around the interiors as the buildings are proper knackered. There's not much left there compared to earlier reports I've read about the site, but that wasn't an issue - the dereliction of the place is something to behold. We made sure we weren't spotted from the road. On a future visit I'd like to get up the tower to take some photos, but that'd be an earlier visit to be happy we were unnoticed.
It's a path well-trod and well-photographed, but cheers for looking:
Bronllys
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Talgarth
