1,933 Comments for North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)

Did you like the black and red stairs? I thought this bit was freeky cuz it was oldfashioned yet modern with the stairs, but no far away was the padded rooms right? I was gutted cuz all the padding was ripped out

Just to let everyone no, it is defenetly peeling paint! When i was there today, we kept walking past rooms and looking at it thinking it was cloth so in the end we went into one of the rooms and it is paint! We were amazed how paint could turn like that lmao x

I cant belive the fact that i was stood in that room today with my mum an bestfriend! We heard banging and screeching all through the nut house !

The GK18 projector mechanism was made by the Kershaw Company in Leeds and was an improved version of the GK40, a machine that was produced for the Indian market during WW2 years at low cost and in a cheap crinckle/crackle finish. First used for gun training, it was not sold in the UK for use in cinemas, but used in mental hospitals by the newly formed NHS. With financial constraints, the installations consisted of only one machine with a second added in later years.
The reliability of the machine led the Rank Organisation to issue a low cost assembly designated as the GK18, the mechanism being a GK40 with improved gate and the whole finished in a mid stone hammer paint.

This makes me want to cry. Beauty destroyed in the name of utility. Soon we will all be living in an Apple-styled world.

kill me now. :(

I think it's quite beautiful. That golden carpet with that ornate silk-like shimmer on the walls... early 20th century style.

my dad went there early on today but he said the gates where locked and the security guard wouldnt allow him to go in and take a photo.
He said since the fire it is too dangerous to go in now. the security guard told my dad that wild horses live on the grounds now and one of the docotrs still lives there as it was like a little village in the grounds, i dont know wether he was joking or not.
I hope this dosent get demolished, its a beautiful building and i think that it should be restored as a museum.

THE DOOR TO THE RIGHT OF THE PIC GOES DOWN TO THE BASEMENT. THAT IS 1 SCARY PLACE. THE THING HANGING DOWN IS A LIGHT COME AWAY FROM CEILING.

Ah yes, the brutalist 70's renovations strike again.

The Seattle train station got abused this way. Real nasty, especially compared to Portland's train station.
Way off topic & like a totally different continent, but I'm still appalled at how global the dropped ceillings are.
Plus, I figure no one is reading this far down on the list.

Hi mom!

up until about 10 years ago you could smoke in all hospitals in england and wales.

I actually saw a lot of windows like these in the castles in England, Wales and Ireland when I was over there. It allowed one on the inside to view multiple angles of the outside but only a limited space from the outside. I.e. one could shoot a bow and arrow at multiple angles from the inside without the fear of an arrow from the outside entering (in a castle). I would imagine they tried to keep the architecture historic/similar even when constructing the original hospital; buildings are much older over there.

Blimey! It's in English!

No, it's a tiled floor. At some point the tiles at the edges were blue whilst those in the center were red. In some of the NHS hospitals I've been in they did this to help partialy-sighted people find their way without bumping into the walls. Might just be decoration though.

And for those over the pond, Avery as a company is still thriving by the name of Avery Berkel.

The scales wer prob left for the looters to weigh their scoof!!!!