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Stop number 2 for myself and Sweet Pea was this place. Seeing as everyone had gone there recently, we thought lets go see what all the fuss was about.
Some history from Wiki:
High Royds Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital south of the village of Menston, West Yorkshire, England.
The hospital is located within in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough and was first opened on 8 October 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. The hospital closed in 2003 and the site has since been developed for residential use, some of which is in the old hospital buildings.
The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards.[citation needed] The 300 acre (1.2 km²) estate on which the asylum was built was purchased by the West Riding Justices for £18,000 in 1885 and the large gothic complex of stone buildings was formally opened on 8 October 1888.
The administration building, which is Grade II listed, features an Italian mosaic floor in the main corridor which is intricately decorated with the Yorkshire Rose and black daisies - the latter of which provided inspiration for the title of Black Daisies a television screenplay, filmed at High Royds, which took as its subject the experiences of sufferers of Alzheimers disease.
All i had seen from here was the golden archways in the corridors, the hall and the front external. Other than that i didnt know what to expect.
We got there and the majority of the place has already been converted to new houses and people were living in them already. At one point when in one of the long dark corridors, we looked out the window and about 8ft away is someones front garden.
Enjoyed my visit here, first things first we wanted to get into the clocktower, so thats were we headed.
Heres afew photos i took that day.
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Thanks for looking
DirtyJigsaw
Some history from Wiki:
High Royds Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital south of the village of Menston, West Yorkshire, England.
The hospital is located within in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough and was first opened on 8 October 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. The hospital closed in 2003 and the site has since been developed for residential use, some of which is in the old hospital buildings.
The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards.[citation needed] The 300 acre (1.2 km²) estate on which the asylum was built was purchased by the West Riding Justices for £18,000 in 1885 and the large gothic complex of stone buildings was formally opened on 8 October 1888.
The administration building, which is Grade II listed, features an Italian mosaic floor in the main corridor which is intricately decorated with the Yorkshire Rose and black daisies - the latter of which provided inspiration for the title of Black Daisies a television screenplay, filmed at High Royds, which took as its subject the experiences of sufferers of Alzheimers disease.
All i had seen from here was the golden archways in the corridors, the hall and the front external. Other than that i didnt know what to expect.
We got there and the majority of the place has already been converted to new houses and people were living in them already. At one point when in one of the long dark corridors, we looked out the window and about 8ft away is someones front garden.
Enjoyed my visit here, first things first we wanted to get into the clocktower, so thats were we headed.
Heres afew photos i took that day.
Asylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrAsylum HR by DirtyJigsaw, on FlickrThanks for looking
DirtyJigsaw
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