This site is known as the Llanerch Care Home for the elderly in Merthyr Mawr. It was already abandoned when a fire destroyed the main building (the site has 2 big houses) in July 2006. As you'll see in the first photo, the gates to the drive way has the name plaque 'Llanerch', but if you follow this driveway up it leads to a large area of foundations where a large property has been demolished. This made me wonder if this was in fact the remains of the Llanerch Care Home - and the building that everyone photographs (located nearby, but over 2 fences and a farmers field was something else?). Trying to research the area has been frustrating as the place seems to only exists on derelict sites such as this one and Flickr! I did manage to find an old map that seemed to place Llanerch at the location of the foundations, and Craig-y-Parcau children home where the abandoned building everyone still visits stands?! I was really getting immersed in research when I stopped to think....hang on, will anyone care about this? haha! Probably not, but thought it may be worth pointing out this doubt - even though I may be completely wrong about it all anyway!!!
Anyway, on with the report.... visited here with Jon6D in February, as "Llanerch" is such a well known derelict place in this area it needed to be ticked off the list. There are 2 buildings. The main building itself is externally still stunning, but inside it is so fire damaged that I haven't uploaded any photos (as we all know what a heap of burnt wood looks like!). The second building does at least have rooms, doors, staircases.... This place is fantastically derelict and being upstairs is probably as dangerous as it gets in these places, but always worth a look!
Anyway, on with the report.... visited here with Jon6D in February, as "Llanerch" is such a well known derelict place in this area it needed to be ticked off the list. There are 2 buildings. The main building itself is externally still stunning, but inside it is so fire damaged that I haven't uploaded any photos (as we all know what a heap of burnt wood looks like!). The second building does at least have rooms, doors, staircases.... This place is fantastically derelict and being upstairs is probably as dangerous as it gets in these places, but always worth a look!
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great find and excellent photos as always.
