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

This was a scale in the floor?

Pegboard?????

Oh the humanity.

I am often filled with disbelief at what some think of as progress. If heating and cooling was the problem then why did they also cover up the columns and change the door frames? Even if they dropped the ceiling they could have left the other details. It would have still been lovely.

"To change
and to change for the better
are two different things."
-- German Proverb

How spooky and eerily foreboding! Right out of a horror movie!

This looks like it should be out in front of a department store or a bank or something. What an interesting door.

I just couldn't imagine some poor mentally ill person getting "stuck" in one of these doors. How confusing for them. Or even scary!

I notice it is only a two "compartment" door. Most of the ones I see these days have three or four "compartments". This one would easily allow a wheelchair to fit, or other equipment.

"All great deeds and all great thoughts
have a ridiculous beginning.
Great works are often born on a street corner
or in a restaurant's revolving door."
-- Albert Camus

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
-- Tom Stoppard

Looks like the door the Corleones shot Don Cuneo in.

I am amused by the plants growing on the tower. In south eastern Indiana there is a small town that has an interesting claim to fame. There is a full tree growing out of the roof of the tower on their town hall! I have been there to see it. It is a strange sight indeed.

I think they look rather like they are crying. Probably because they are that nasty color!

"And then she took a long breath and looked behind her up the long walk to see if any one was coming. No one was coming. No one ever did come, it seemed, and she took another long breath, because she could not help it, and she held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly--slowly.

Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her, and stood with her back against it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement, and wonder, and delight.

She was standing inside the secret garden."
-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

MMM...rot

What an odd contrast. The complicated ornate piece right below that simple plain sign.

I instantly thought of Alice in Wonderland as soon as I saw this!

"Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!"
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Would you look at that! Some boob is still working! Hey you! It's closed!

heh heh heh heh

Being an office person myself I can see how you wouldn't want to take it with you. The more you leave behind the less you have to sort through later on. Of course then you can always use the excuse that you left it in the other building to get out of stuff.

What an interesting space. For some reason this pic makes me think of the good ol' days when we were stuck inside at school and the windows with their views were beckoning us to come outdoors and play.