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

Lynne: YOU GO GIRL!!!!! I'm with you.

Makes you wonder: Was this to keep the INSANE IN or the INSANE OUT!!!!!!!!! One wonders.

It just occured to me that I spent a while fighting with an outlet like this yesterday afternoon. So evidently they're also native to Maine.

Notice the Plan says BLOCK A\Z Give you that PRISION feeling!!!!!

Some of the cafeterias I've eaten in would actually BE indistinguishable from hell . . .

Reddll; Thank you for your comment. Brings back memories.

Or not... The arrow would be pointing down for hell. This one is probably just telling how to get to the cafeteria.

Nevermore....have you tried ancestry.co.uk?

You can access birth, death and marriage records there for free so if you have some names and dates of birth/death you could use those. Or the national census records. Some of those are free too.

I just started my family tree on there!

What a shot Mr. Motts. Did you set this up???? If not, Sir ,YOU ARE A GENIOUS this is just toooooo much!!!!!!!!

Did anyone notice the Arrow on the window?????? THIS WAY TO HELL!!!

You Guy,s with your Outlets. Here in the U.S. (Illinois) we have both.

Check out the celing. THE SKY IS FALLING, CHICKEN LITTLE!!!!!!

DoomHamster, Or anybody out there that can help me. I'm trying to trace my Welish, Irish Geneoligy. Can anybody out there help me???????

AWSOME!!!!! Mr. Motts, what was on the signs, or whatever they are, that are hanging down???????? They must be direction signs. Were they????

P.S. From "The 18th Annual Report of the Trustees of the Willard Asylum for the Insane for the year 1886" - Schedule A - "An abstract of the vouchers audited by the Committee on Audits":

Audit date: November 7, 1885
No. of Voucher: 31
Item: New Urbana Wine Co.
For: wine
Amount: $39.52
No. of Voucher: 79
Item: L. W. Kaufman
For: whiskey
Amount: $69.00

Audit date: December 8, 1885
No. of Voucher: 156
Item: New Urbana Wine Co.
For: wine and grapes
Amount: $60.92

Audit date: January 7, 1886
No. of Voucher: 283
Item: L. W. Kaufman
For: whiskey
Amount: $66.75
No. of Voucher: 301
Item: New Urbana Wine Co.
For: wine
Amount: $38.67

Audit date: February 8, 1886
No. of Voucher: 468
Item: New Urbana Wine Co.
For: wine
Amount: $40.37
No. of Voucher: 557
Item: L. W. Kaufman
For: whisky (sic)
Amount: $69.00

For four months at that time, that was one heck of a lot of money to spend on alcohol if no one was imbibing.

I also purchased a lovely letter the other day on eBay dated July 6, 1893 from the Superintendent (O.R. Long, M.D.) of the "Michigan Asylum for Dangerous and Criminal Insane" in Ionia, Michigan, to the Pleasant Valley Wine Company of New York (it's still there, too) asking for prices on their "Great Western brand of champagne for this asylum."