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This photo is stunning I wish they weren't going to demolish it thank god there are still hospitals like this one that have been saved I am thankful to you for recording this place in so much detail maybe you could visit other places like this one before they are destroyed so we will never forget that they existed

I agree it should've been renovated but it's past repair now and it would cost a fortune to sort it - believe me if i had the money I would buy the place right now. I thought Prince Charles wanted to save the grade 2 listed buildings they've saved other hospitals like this one admittedly they generally end up as housing but at least they're kept for posterity

I visited this website after spending the past week watching most haunted on living tv's halloween special who visited the hospital to search for the paranormal. The photographs are amazing but sad at the same time I hate seeing beautiful buildings like this go to waste when they could've been transformed into something of use instead of being left to rot like this and the cost to renovate them now would be too much for anyone to consider buying them without demolishing the buildings for the land alone. As a child I went to a school opposite a hospital just like this one that had been closed I often used to wonder at the age of 10 what could be done with it even back then. they have kept the listed buildings and turned the site into housing which is not ideal but better than losing it altogether. I suffer from epilepsy and take medication which controls it but it sends a shiver down my spine to think that 100 years ago instead of going to school opposite I would've been sent to High Royds to endure the pain of shock therapy and not come out. I think it is important to keep the memories of places like this alive as a tribute to the people who lived and died there. I for one will not forget. I suggest you visit their site at www.highroyds.com

Eerie, but fascinating at the same time

Beautiful shades of blue.

Amazing

This is amazing. I've told all my friends about this site, and they love it too! Keep up the awesome pics!!

"And then to assume that every single person was then sexually abused and tormented is just as sick."

Well, Lynne, this post is about two years late, but I still feel very compelled to post a comment regarding your above rant... I have been reading most of the comments put on Opacity, including yours, and I have to say that as hurtful as it may be to you to think ppl here were tortured and abused, sexually, mentally, and physically, you need to get a grip. I know u work in a facility and have at lots of others. You may not abuse your patients, (the world applauds u for not), but I guarantee you someone else does. Why is it so hard for you to imagine this abuse took place here and also on so many other institutional grounds? Of course there will be exceptions, but according to all the websites Motts posted here documenting the abuse, apparently it was the RULE. For ppl to believe this happened does NOT make them sick or demented. And I believe the person who posted did say "many people," not all.

Not everyone wears rose-colored glasses, and maybe u should take yours off.

Wow, I love the composition of the shot. You really nailed it.

wow, this is a creepy picture....

Love the color contrast

if only these lamps could talk, and tell us stories about how it was so long ago....

Everytime I see anything to do with smoking in mental hospitals I think of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

This particular staircase is more attractive than the ones seen in most state hospitals

Just been watching the Most Haunted that is taking place here this halloween for 7 days, tonight been the last night and i have to say its a gorgeous ruin, shame to let it get demolished :'(

There are some weird looking places in that hospital and id hate to spend time there on my own pn a dark night.