Hello everyone,
I promise I haven't forgotten about you and the forum. I'm still active and watching the forums here, but it's not often I get up to much over here so you won't find me posting very often. Nevertheless, I've been out and about again and have some new sites to share with you. The sites you all see are relatively small and not really big enough to warrant separate threads so I'll be posting all of them here; they range from bland derp to not far short of epic, but to be honest as I said before the architecture is predominantly filthy grey concrete boxes so of little real appeal compared to European sites. Too many sites here are just not that interesting. But then I still need to get out once in a while, so without further ado here's what I have.
Yuanlin Hospital/員林醫院
A small local hospital in the lower prefecture city of Yuanlin, built in 1963 and closed in approximately 2000. It's one of Taiwan's more famous ruins, often featured in exaggerated media reports and blogs about how the place is allegedly haunted.
The funny thing is, had this site been in the UK I guarantee you it would be wall to wall graffitied and utterly ruined, but here it seems comparatively fresh. Sure, you've got some graffiti and smashed glass, and everything has been removed, but it seems to be that people here have far more respect for abandoned places than anywhere else.
As you approach the building you will see that despite paper signs warning people not to enter no attempts have been made in recent years to seal the building whatsoever. No boarded windows, no locked doors, no fences. This is even more surprising considering the site backs onto an elementary school playground, with no boundary!
The X-ray room. It was a baking hot, humid day so being in here wasn't too pleasant with all the mosquitoes flying around. The coffin on the floor is an abandoned prop from when the hospital was used as a filming location for a cheap horror film IIRC.
I suppose if there is any appeal to this place, it's a showcase of the crude, bland KMT-authoritarian architecture which Taiwan seems to be so fond of; filthy bathroom tiles decorating the exterior, barred windows, grey concrete and the like.
The real interest in this site is the old vintage ambulance car, left abandoned in the garage outside.
So there we have it, part 1 of 4. Not a total waste of time for a day off, but I can assure you there are far better things to see yet.
I promise I haven't forgotten about you and the forum. I'm still active and watching the forums here, but it's not often I get up to much over here so you won't find me posting very often. Nevertheless, I've been out and about again and have some new sites to share with you. The sites you all see are relatively small and not really big enough to warrant separate threads so I'll be posting all of them here; they range from bland derp to not far short of epic, but to be honest as I said before the architecture is predominantly filthy grey concrete boxes so of little real appeal compared to European sites. Too many sites here are just not that interesting. But then I still need to get out once in a while, so without further ado here's what I have.
Yuanlin Hospital/員林醫院
A small local hospital in the lower prefecture city of Yuanlin, built in 1963 and closed in approximately 2000. It's one of Taiwan's more famous ruins, often featured in exaggerated media reports and blogs about how the place is allegedly haunted.
The funny thing is, had this site been in the UK I guarantee you it would be wall to wall graffitied and utterly ruined, but here it seems comparatively fresh. Sure, you've got some graffiti and smashed glass, and everything has been removed, but it seems to be that people here have far more respect for abandoned places than anywhere else.
As you approach the building you will see that despite paper signs warning people not to enter no attempts have been made in recent years to seal the building whatsoever. No boarded windows, no locked doors, no fences. This is even more surprising considering the site backs onto an elementary school playground, with no boundary!
The X-ray room. It was a baking hot, humid day so being in here wasn't too pleasant with all the mosquitoes flying around. The coffin on the floor is an abandoned prop from when the hospital was used as a filming location for a cheap horror film IIRC.
I suppose if there is any appeal to this place, it's a showcase of the crude, bland KMT-authoritarian architecture which Taiwan seems to be so fond of; filthy bathroom tiles decorating the exterior, barred windows, grey concrete and the like.
The real interest in this site is the old vintage ambulance car, left abandoned in the garage outside.
So there we have it, part 1 of 4. Not a total waste of time for a day off, but I can assure you there are far better things to see yet.