Urbex: The Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum – September 2012
Formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum. The Asylum was built in 1852 and enlarged on several subsequent occasions…
Formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum. The Asylum was built in 1852 and enlarged on several subsequent occasions…
Dont forget to visit my first Denbigh post for all the history and some more photos HERE. This was my 3rd visit to Denbigh (Second with the camera) and this time I did bring my SLR! Access however wasn’t to be had inside the buildings so a few external shots for you to browse over. The first…
A good little explore, place was pretty much stripped bare and in the process of being demolished (too many of these old asylums have bitten the dust over the last 5 years). Best find was the morgue, although only small with room for 6 bodies it was still my first and I’m glad to…
West Park Asylum (or West Park Hospital) was a large psychiatric hospital in Epsom, Surrey. When complete the hospital could cater for around 2,000 patients of mixed class, and hence the site had extensive boiler houses and plant rooms, a large laundry and a substantial water tower…
Denbigh asylum aka the North Wales Hospital is a magnificent example for the asylums in the UK, the architecture and position within the rural landscape are fantastic when you first roll up near the place. On this visit we had a pretty casual wonder round through most of the buildings…
Whittingham Hospital, whose grounds adjoin the village of Goosnargh, grew to be the largest mental hospital in the country, and pioneered the use of electroencephalograms (EEGs). During its time it had its own church, farms, railway, telephone exchange, post office, reservoirs, gas works, brewery, orchestra, brass band, ballroom and butchers…
The hospital was opened in the 1930s. Each of the villas housed up to 50 patients but as the years passed the number gradually declined, especially with the advent of “Care In The Community”. As far as I can tell the site closed sometime in 2006 and has since become target somewhat by local youths and people stealing scrap metals…
The Gledhow Grove Mansion became part of Chapel Allerton Hospital which was opened in May 1927 by HRH Princess Mary. It was run by the Ministry of Pensions and cost £130,000. It had two hundred beds and catered for former military personnel who had been injured in the Great War…