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

...besides these old buildings are great - you can play cricket in the hallways and volleyball in the middle of the wards when the patients get bored and admin have gone home...

Exquisite. An historical beauty the likes of which will never be seen again. And no, that's not necessarily a good thing. If you ask enough psych patients if de-institutionalisation was the better option, you'll find that there's a case for being under a solid roof for the night with food and reliable starched nurses with a regular routine and someone to help you with symptomatic relief when things got a bit ragged. Yes, there's nasty stories, but so are there today about elder care, and more than half of it is B.S.

This is divine and beautiful. How could they leave these places empty and derelict? (where's my soapbox, would someone pass me....over there...thanks), i can't believe that in the UK and USA there are so many magnificent heritage buildings that are crying out to be rebuilt as museums or funky co op housing or nursing homes or scientology headquarters (sorry...) it's not as though they were surgical buildings with heaps of golden staph infecting the floorboards. If I get 'JK Rowling' wealthy I'm gonna buy me one and live like an eccentric. Viva the kirkbride, viva the asylum! I'll get down now, shall I?...

Our morphine/oxycontin/dilaudid etc drugs are schedule 8 drugs (S8) kept in locked safes. Maybe S1 drugs in the UK are cytotoxics like chaemo or opiates like our S8's are. Any UK nurses out there?

Sad, but amazing shot, Mr. Motts.

T.D., don't worry if no-one else got it, I did!

One house I bought had a pink sink, toilet and tub. GAG!!!!

An incredible shot and a beautiful corridor. The natural, rough stone contrasting against the smooth, manufactured tile is wonderful.

Yes sir, nothing like shock therapy to calm the nerves. Mmmm, gotta love those involuntary contortions.

How dumb is that? a fire exit to another room.

it's probably where they treated agrophobia.

that photo shows history emotion..death..and it looks cool as hell

It was a long exposure, and the people inside were moving around, which is why they are blurry.

Looks like trhe building is rejecting the "modernizations" made to it.

theres a better chance of being toxic waste in that room than treasure, but i guess you never know until you find out.