Lluesty Hospital, Holywell - November 2015

Originally built as a workhouse in the 1830s by the Holywell Poor Law Union, this North Wales hospital closed in 2008 and despite being a Grade II listed building it sits slowly rotting await in housing development hell. It is not known if Derek Acorah has visited this site.

Team Weasel reunited for a wet day out in North Wales, being Judderman, ZerO81 and my good self.





All the buildings on site are in a shocking state and every corner you turn you find signs of the local fire bugs having attempted to set fire to the place, pity the neighbours and the petrol station opposite.



Lets have a wander





















Oh my, someone has been playing with a Ouija Board.....







and it was time to leave, with a message from the afterlife.......




A pleasant potter 6/10 with the old gang and good explore to hide from the rain.

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Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale - June 2015

Visited with Tbolt, ZerO81 and the fashionable young whippet known only as The Underdog. 

Opening in 1877 as a workhouse known as Dearnley with the addition of an infirmary in 1902, Birch Hill became a hospital in 1948 and finally closed in January 2013.

With the vast majority of the buildings now demolished, the last part of the building including its clock tower sits surrounded by a residential building site.





Time for a mooch, this place is all about the clock tower.







 



And up to the clock tower.....





 

but I'm not sure if this one is better in B&W????



Anyway, a nice simple potter - 9/10 (just for the clock tower).

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Clifton Fever Hospital, Brighouse - May 2015

This one had been in the book for a long while, we (Team Weasel) rolled up, but sadly this is not a report - it is a don't bother.

All windows and doors filled with breeze block, upstairs and down.





And we drove on after quick chat with the locals.

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Denbigh Asylum - October 2014

The locals call it Denbigh Mental, some call it Denbigh Asylum, it had the official title of North Wales Hospital and it now sits rotting in development hell.



Grade II listed, built in 1848, the hospital closed in sections between 1991 and 2002.

Over the years this place has become almost mythical in exploring circles, with over excitable security, a very angry old man with a large dog, tales of ghosts and mysterious "things" appearing in photos - then add to that the Most Haunted TV crew taking up residency for a week with a show called "Village of the Damned".  This went down like a lead balloon with the locals as detailed in this article from the Telegraph.

I had done some aerial shots late 2013 and Denbigh Asylum was on my list for an explore for years, I had just never managed to get round to doing it and so myself and Spaceman thought we would take the overdue trip down to North Wales. We phoned Fruit Loaf McCheese with his cutting repy of  "Point me at the asylum, a phrase I think of often", it should be explained that the Fruit Loaf McCheese is not an explorer normally by choice but he agreed none the less.

 

Denbigh Mental had a lot to live up to....

 

But sadly it didn't.

Asylums normally have an eerie feel, when you wander you wonder what went on within its walls, this atmosphere was no longer present at Denbigh Asylum, its walls no longer talk or hint at what misery the building had witnessed.

Sadly we saw no ghosts, dogs, angry old men or maniac security but we did spot the recent fire damage which in the scale of things is minor compared to the rotten floors, collapsed corridors and the general hanging on for dear life state of the place.

 





Strangely, despite being closed since 2002, on stairwells you could smell that hospital smell of Idoform permeating out of the building.





 

 

Time for a few more externals before we left.







Well past its derp past date, we left this sorry place sadly disappointed as this once grand building clings on for dear life. A sad end to a sad building looms ever closer.

Whilst I've never understood why anyone would want to live in a disused asylum or hospital for that matter, hopefully some property developer (with money to spend) will step in and save whats left soon before it's to late.

2/10

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Derbyshire Royal Infirmary - February 2014

As I type this about 40 other explorers/photographers are wading thru their own photographs of the very same day - it was busy, but the place is that big it didn't matter.

Visited with the Judderman, who took his seat at the driving wheel for our early start down to Derby, a most pleasant journey I should add for which I can't thank him enough.

The hospital having closed in sections over the years has a small section that remains open, sealed off from the main area of the site.

 

 

First off this place is simply huge, aside from the main hospital it has accommodation blocks, offices, a swimming pool, nursery, lecture theatres - I could go on.

The main hospital is old, older and not so old, it has maze like qualities with many floors. Sadly with door after door of NHS sameness it is kind of easy to lose yourself in the long corridors of derp.

So on with the pictures.
 
 
If you do like corridors of derp, this is indeed the place for you to worship your corridor fetish
 

 
 

and more and more and more - take a picnic, its going to be a long day.

 

I could go on, but here is a few to round off the post.
 







Thanks for looking, plenty more on my Flickr.