Report - Welsh Asylum Roundup – Spring 2022

[MotionlessMike]

Spent a fair bit of time in Wales over the past couple of months and managed to visit or revisit the remaining asylums (sort of). I won't try and rehash the history for all of them, but I've linked each hospitals' respective page on the County Asylums website coz they do it best really!

Cefn Coed Hospital

Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea - County Asylums

Stopped off here on the way to Swansea beach without much hope of seeing inside. Found my way in after a couple of laps of the site and had the place to myself for a few hours.

Proper Weetabix floor in the disused section of the main hall

St Cadoc’s Hospital

St Cadoc's Hospital, Newport - County Asylums

Visited one morning with @raisinwing, went smoothly enough despite having to hide in a toilet cubicle for a while. Obviously this is still a working hospital with some 'disused' wards, so it felt a bit naughty being here tbh.

The chapel was also open on this occasion

Mid Wales Hospital

Mid Wales Hospital, Talgarth - County Asylums

Solo visit to Talgarth while on the way home after my birthday... Not much changed in the 3 or so years since I last went apart from the roof of the hall getting worse.

To be continued...
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[MotionlessMike]

Up in the clocktower

Whitchurch Hospital

Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff - County Asylums

Okay so Whitchurch is a bit of a cop out because these pix are from last August with @raisinwing and @Humpa but I never did anything with the photos, so including them here for the sake of completion!

North Wales Hospital

North Wales Hospital, Denbigh - County Asylums

Swung by Denbigh with @Mr Budge while in North Wales recently for a wander, an enjoyable morning despite there being nothing really worth seeing there. Few close moments with Mr Security driving around the site but other than that a pretty relaxed time.

Quick look at the nurses home to end on

That's it... Thanks for looking.

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[mockney reject]

Nicely done there mate.
Great to see Cefn peeling up nicely

 

[jST]

Ta for this, an enjoyable summary.

11/10, good to see pop up etc.

 

[Wally_urbex]

Lovely collection there mate!

 

[Mikeymutt]

Superb compilation of them all. All beautiful in there own way. Really enjoyed this report and pics are spot on.

 

[Ferox]

Brillant stuff mate. A cracking report with great pics

 

[host]

Full marks mate that’s a great and in-depth report.

 

[dweeb]

Great round up, enjoyed that.

 

[mookster]

Great collection. I'm missing my regular trips to Wales this year.

 

[Olkka]

Talgarth >

 

[HughieD]

Fantastic report. All 5 of them have something to offer. Only had a brief visit to Denbigh so nice to see what Wales has to offer asylum-wise. Which is quite alot!

 

[zombizza]

Amazing, best thing to come out the uk for a while

 

[tumbles]

Nicely nicely, Cefn looks very peely, even nicer than Whitchurch in a way. The later seems a bit of a mission lately so good you go in back in August.

Crazy to think how many asylums there were in Wales.. another 3 in South/Mid Wales on top of this selection!

 

[mookster]

Nicely nicely, Cefn looks very peely, even nicer than Whitchurch in a way. The later seems a bit of a mission lately so good you go in back in August.

Crazy to think how many asylums there were in Wales.. another 3 in South/Mid Wales on top of this selection!

Maybe there was a disproportionate number of crazy people in Wales