Llwynypia Hospital, South Wales
Llwynypia Hospital is/was in the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales. The site closed a couple of years ago after a replacement hospital opened directly across the road. The Hospital used to comprise of three main buildings and several smaller buildings, with a casualty ward, an outpatients department and several long stay wards.
Two of the main buildings were demolished fairly soon after closure, and hit the headlines in the area as people were outraged by the amount being spent by the NHS on protecting the site from vandals and thieves (The Health Trust were rumoured to be paying £230,000 p.a to a security firm to monitor the site). However one building still remains, which housed several wards, treatment rooms and drugs stores.
The remaining building is beginning to show heavy signs of dereliction, the metal thieves have attacked and although the roof remains in good condition, pretty much everything that can be stripped has been stripped. Aside from one or two rooms, there are very few signs of graffiti or kids messing around.
Word of warning to anyone considering paying a visit. The site had obviously been lived in although there was no-one there at the time, at the furthest end of the corridor upstairs lie two makeshift beds and evidence of intravenous drug use as well as newspapers from last month.
Llwynypia Hospital is/was in the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales. The site closed a couple of years ago after a replacement hospital opened directly across the road. The Hospital used to comprise of three main buildings and several smaller buildings, with a casualty ward, an outpatients department and several long stay wards.
Two of the main buildings were demolished fairly soon after closure, and hit the headlines in the area as people were outraged by the amount being spent by the NHS on protecting the site from vandals and thieves (The Health Trust were rumoured to be paying £230,000 p.a to a security firm to monitor the site). However one building still remains, which housed several wards, treatment rooms and drugs stores.
The remaining building is beginning to show heavy signs of dereliction, the metal thieves have attacked and although the roof remains in good condition, pretty much everything that can be stripped has been stripped. Aside from one or two rooms, there are very few signs of graffiti or kids messing around.
Word of warning to anyone considering paying a visit. The site had obviously been lived in although there was no-one there at the time, at the furthest end of the corridor upstairs lie two makeshift beds and evidence of intravenous drug use as well as newspapers from last month.
