Report - Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff - Dec 2024

[steve hannaford]

More of an update than a report ….

Whitchurch Hospital has gone by many names throughout its 108 year life such as Cardiff City Asylum (planning stage only ), Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital during ww2,Cardiff City Mental Hospital and The Fruit Factory.
Opened April 1908 closed April 2016
Several planning applications have lapsed since the closure of the Compact arrow planned hospital.
Lacking the beautiful gothic architecture of Denbigh or the dark history of the health treatments at Talgarth it’s definitely a place worth a visit if you love taking that long corridor shot or peeling paint or just feel a little at home in a hospital such as this.
I would like to thank storm Darragh for bringing down a large tree and destroying a section of Palisade fencing making the visit easier.

 

[mookster]

More of an update than a report ….

Whitchurch Hospital has gone by many names throughout its 108 year life such as Cardiff City Asylum (planning stage only ), Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital during ww2,Cardiff City Mental Hospital and The Fruit Factory.
Opened April 1908 closed April 2016
Several planning applications have lapsed since the closure of the Compact arrow planned hospital.
Lacking the beautiful gothic architecture of Denbigh or the dark history of the health treatments at Talgarth it’s definitely a place worth a visit if you love taking that long corridor shot or peeling paint or just feel a little at home in a hospital such as this.
I would like to thank storm Darragh for bringing down a large tree and destroying a section of Palisade fencing making the visit easier.

That tree has been down since the end of September, a long time before that storm. All secca did rather than fix it properly was chuck a piece of fence haphazardly into the gaping hole and cut some of the tree back in the days following it, I guess they have to wait for the owners to sort out a repair.

 

[steve hannaford]

That tree has been down since the end of September, a long time before that storm. All secca did rather than fix it properly was chuck a piece of fence haphazardly into the gaping hole and cut some of the tree back in the days following it, I guess they have to wait for the owners to sort out a repair.

Ahhh I see … Thanks tree 😊

 

[Wastelandr]

As if they still haven't fixed that tree, spose that's about as good as the other security measures there lol.

 

[mookster]

Ahhh I see … Thanks tree 😊

Some friends of mine were inside when it came down, it provided them a handy way out as security had sealed up the way in they had used earlier in the day!

 

[Mikeymutt]

It's decaying so nicely now.

 

[steve hannaford]

Some friends of mine were inside when it came down, it provided them a handy way out as security had sealed up the way in they had used earlier in the day!

Good ole Lady Luck 😊😂

 

[steve hannaford]

It's decaying so nicely now.

You should make the trip Mikey … you’d get some good shots 👍

 

[Oxygen Thief]

Proper crumbly old asylum now

 

[JaffaTB]

Need to get myself back down here, failed earlier in the year with the guard and his dog not seeing me 5 meters away holding onto a window ledge

 

[tumbles]

Needs more fairy lights

 

[Mikeymutt]

You should make the trip Mikey … you’d get some good shots 👍

I would love to make the trip, hopefully one day.