Hello everyone.
This explore I found hard, quite difficult if I'm being honest. My commitment to survey, entry and navigation was second to none as with most explores but here I seemed to wade through the place with a heavy for of anxiety. The night previous I had a quantity of ale with the legend of Jon Boy, keeper of the floating digs. Some may say hungover but this wasn't the case. My last explore through Whittingham, we were almost flammable due to the drink consumed the night before but the visit was easy. This place was different, genuinely sapping. I've done a reasonable quota of Asylums and Hospitals over the last few years, not all on the net or published but I have numerous photographs. Denbigh was very different. Hard to say through a keyboard. Metaphysically it was a huge obstacle course, constantly feeling I was accompanied, feeling a glare from the many windows or cold patches or unexplainable sounds but I suppose mental acrobatics is the side effect of going solo, I was in there 7 hours.
That aside.. Here are a few photographs. Keeping in with the 35 limit I didn't even bother to pick my shots for this report, I clicked a diverse range from my photostream on Flickr. I am still in the process of publishing to Flickr. Some of the better ones are still to come or not published here or entirely. Please check back to my Flickr account... https://www.flickr.com/photos/kopex/sets/72157649312965221/
The Asylums of the United Kingdom were never operated in or with the same conscience in which they were created. Asylums were betrayed and portrayed by psychiatry's pure desperation to achieve scientific recognition. It still doesn't exist hence the mass drugging of our times. These institutions would be valuable in today's society. The government has since expressed regret in closing them all. The psychiatric practices of the times stigmatized the buildings. In brief.. When you are good, nobody remembers. When you are bad, nobody forgets. This I find the easiest way to described every asylum.
A brief history to introduce the set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Wales_Hospital
Designed by architect Thomas Full James to originally accommodate between 60 and 200 patients, the hospital originally had its own farm and gasworks. Planned for closure by Enoch Powell during the 1960s, it was closed in sections from 1991 to 2002.
On 22 November 2008, during work to renovate the building site and convert it to apartments and residential properties, the building caught fire; it was later confirmed that the main hall of the hospital was destroyed. Arson was suspected.
Currently on the buildings at risk register, planning permission has currently lapsed. In 2011 the building was at risk of collapsing and no action was taken by the owners after an urgent works notice was issued, Denbighshire Council had no choice but to carry out repairs on the building which has reached £930,000 In 2013, Denbighshire Council voted to press ahead with a compulsory purchase order on the building; the council, however, wish to reach an agreement with the owners before taking legal action. An estimated cost of repairing the building is £1 million.
This explore I found hard, quite difficult if I'm being honest. My commitment to survey, entry and navigation was second to none as with most explores but here I seemed to wade through the place with a heavy for of anxiety. The night previous I had a quantity of ale with the legend of Jon Boy, keeper of the floating digs. Some may say hungover but this wasn't the case. My last explore through Whittingham, we were almost flammable due to the drink consumed the night before but the visit was easy. This place was different, genuinely sapping. I've done a reasonable quota of Asylums and Hospitals over the last few years, not all on the net or published but I have numerous photographs. Denbigh was very different. Hard to say through a keyboard. Metaphysically it was a huge obstacle course, constantly feeling I was accompanied, feeling a glare from the many windows or cold patches or unexplainable sounds but I suppose mental acrobatics is the side effect of going solo, I was in there 7 hours.
That aside.. Here are a few photographs. Keeping in with the 35 limit I didn't even bother to pick my shots for this report, I clicked a diverse range from my photostream on Flickr. I am still in the process of publishing to Flickr. Some of the better ones are still to come or not published here or entirely. Please check back to my Flickr account... https://www.flickr.com/photos/kopex/sets/72157649312965221/
The Asylums of the United Kingdom were never operated in or with the same conscience in which they were created. Asylums were betrayed and portrayed by psychiatry's pure desperation to achieve scientific recognition. It still doesn't exist hence the mass drugging of our times. These institutions would be valuable in today's society. The government has since expressed regret in closing them all. The psychiatric practices of the times stigmatized the buildings. In brief.. When you are good, nobody remembers. When you are bad, nobody forgets. This I find the easiest way to described every asylum.
A brief history to introduce the set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Wales_Hospital
Designed by architect Thomas Full James to originally accommodate between 60 and 200 patients, the hospital originally had its own farm and gasworks. Planned for closure by Enoch Powell during the 1960s, it was closed in sections from 1991 to 2002.
On 22 November 2008, during work to renovate the building site and convert it to apartments and residential properties, the building caught fire; it was later confirmed that the main hall of the hospital was destroyed. Arson was suspected.
Currently on the buildings at risk register, planning permission has currently lapsed. In 2011 the building was at risk of collapsing and no action was taken by the owners after an urgent works notice was issued, Denbighshire Council had no choice but to carry out repairs on the building which has reached £930,000 In 2013, Denbighshire Council voted to press ahead with a compulsory purchase order on the building; the council, however, wish to reach an agreement with the owners before taking legal action. An estimated cost of repairing the building is £1 million.
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you're certainly a man of many words.
just needs a date adding to the title 
