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

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The font is good ole Helvetica (or Arial)
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Great find!
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@Long Island Irish- I agree, when I first saw this shot, my brai played a trick on me and I actually thought I could go threw the door
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I live a couple of miles away from here and have visited it many times.My auntie worked there for years and my nain was a patient there once.If anyone has any questions about the place please feel free to ask.
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Hi, I am an illustrator born and bred in Denbigh. You have some great photographs here, especially the ones of the Hospital. When did you go there? There has been a programme shot there in 2008, it was a 'most haunted ' week long special and about a week after they had finished filming there was a massive fire there, spooky or what?
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Motts,

Cellulose film has a half life of 10-15 years if not properly stored, my best guess is this film is toast and you could not get a viewable image off it. It will begin to cloud and harden pretty quickly and does worst in hot, humid areas. You can usually tell by "sniffing" the film. If it has a vinegary smell the acetyl acids are proably starting to leach from the film. The acids from your fingers can also break it down, so films that got touched a lot fall apart pretty fast too.

there is more on the whole process here
http://en.wikipedia.or...llulose_acetate_film

Most of the stuff you find will fall into this category. If you find 35mm film it is probably also unusable if it is Kodachrome as the last shop developing it finally stopped this year.
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it is paint, aliciaa. that what "low sheen" latex paint looks like when it peels off of a glossy oil finish. (sorry, i'm a painter, thats the only reason why i would know that) lol
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mel, thats was my 10th birthday too!!
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"i want you to WANT to do the dishes"
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what an incredible looking building!
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Blue Lamp -

It looks like that all of the time in Wales :P

You start to get used to it after a while...
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Is that the size? Wow.. No kidding. That seems unbearable..
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this is kinda cool. here it is November 28th 2010 and i find this picture of papers done november 29 1990.
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Me and my friends went in here last night,

we saw this and went around the back entrance where there isnt evan a gate, hehe :P
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looks like the one's we had in hospital as a kid