General - Request for images from Wales (Heritage Project)

[paulhunt]

Hi everyone,

Amazing images here. I work for Mencap on a heritage project that is collecting the oral histories of 80 people with a learning disability who lived in 6 long-stay hospitals across Wales.

The oral histories will be stored in St Fagan's archive (the National Museum of Welsh Life) but we will also be creating 6 regional museum exhibitions based around the following hospitals:

Hensol (now a 5 star hotel)
Ely (demolished)
Bryn Y Neuadd (still in use)
Denbigh (closed, legally speaking a minefield)
Llanfrechfa Grange (still open, half of hospital due to be redeveloped in coming years)
St David's (Carmarthen) (hospital closed but most buildings in use by council or NHS).

I've been researching mainly Hensol at the moment and have come across many amazing images of Hensol and Denbigh. I was hoping I could get those of you with images from any of these hospitals to get in touch. I'd love to keep a record of them and potentially put some on display (bearing in mind the sight of ruined buildings could upset people for whom these hospitals were home). Also i'm unclear at the moment about whether our funders, the Heritage Lottery Fund will allow us to display pictures taken on land that is fenced off (I hope that either they allow it or that someone can provide a sound legal basis as we're clueless about this!).

Anyway, please email me at [email protected] I look forward to hearing from some of you.

 

[Oxygen Thief]

Like I said in my email on the same subject, feel free to use any of mine for any purpose, just a small credit to myself and this website required.

The copyright belongs to the photographer, the methodology of taking the picture isn't a legal basis of anything. You can still legally photograph while illegally trespassing. They are two totally separate issues, one should not relate to the other.

 

[Oxygen Thief]

Denbigh (closed, legally speaking a minefield)

Why?

 

[paulhunt]

With regards to Denbigh I was speaking in general - we would normally ask the owners for permission for access to get some artefacts from the site but the CPO is unlikely to be completed until our project ends. From what I gather there is some shadiness around the current owners (allegedly a teacher in India one former staff member told me) and of course the timely arsons on the site days after the CPO was served.

 

[Oxygen Thief]

Some artefacts? There's nothing recognisable in there, it's a rotten fetid hole nowadays.

 

[The_Raw]

If it might be upsetting for the former patients wouldn't it be better to source photos from when the buildings were still operational?

 

[paulpowers]

if any of mine are of any use then let me know

 

[Speed]

If you want artifacts from denbigh I've got loads you could have

 

[tumbles]

Sinnerman would have some great shots of a few of these, sadly not online much but I'll give him a nudge on FB.

 

[Lolly92]

I have photos of both Denbigh and Llanfrechfa that you are free to use of you'd like as long as they are credited to myself.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums...Asylum-Denbighshire-Wales-May-2014?highlight=

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums...n-block-and-Chapel-Wales-July-2014?highlight=

 

[AuntieKnickers]

Feel free to use any of mine from here: http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums...sylum-North-Wales-July-2014?highlight=denbigh
As long as they are credited to myself.