A little history, shamelessly stole 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 hospital was intended to be largely self-sufficient, and was provided with its own library, surgery, dispensary, butchery, dairies, bakery, shop, upholster's and cobbler's workshops and a large estate partly devoted to agriculture and market gardening. The patients lived in wards and if they were able, were expected to work towards their keep either on the farm, in the kitchens and laundry, or in various handicrafts. The hospital was formerly connected to the Wharfedale railway line by its own small railway system, the High Royds Hospital Railway, but this was closed in 1951
The explore was quite good actually, this is the only Asylum I have been in where I got a real feel of it. It felt like an Asylum, not just looked like one. Strange noises, wet footprints in the middle of rooms and none anywhere else all added to it. I must say the place was stunning and as I had got my ticket for the tour bus I was now at the location intended haha!
Everywhere there were beautiful tiled floors, ornate woodwork, stunning celings. It is crammed with stuff to see. And the hall, well that was a belter too, the decay is starting to have quite an effect in there now.
Personally I loved the little windows above the split corridor. They are a thing of beauty!
Met Sweetpea & Dirty Jigsaw whilst we were there, good to see you guys!
Anyway, on with the pics! Picture heavy as always lol
Nice little staircase
And another
The stunning hall
Sorry about this shot, I was using my wide angle and it blurred it.
This was one of my favourite bits
from the safe in what I think was the post office
Those beautiful windows
Clocktower
The external
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 hospital was intended to be largely self-sufficient, and was provided with its own library, surgery, dispensary, butchery, dairies, bakery, shop, upholster's and cobbler's workshops and a large estate partly devoted to agriculture and market gardening. The patients lived in wards and if they were able, were expected to work towards their keep either on the farm, in the kitchens and laundry, or in various handicrafts. The hospital was formerly connected to the Wharfedale railway line by its own small railway system, the High Royds Hospital Railway, but this was closed in 1951
The explore was quite good actually, this is the only Asylum I have been in where I got a real feel of it. It felt like an Asylum, not just looked like one. Strange noises, wet footprints in the middle of rooms and none anywhere else all added to it. I must say the place was stunning and as I had got my ticket for the tour bus I was now at the location intended haha!
Everywhere there were beautiful tiled floors, ornate woodwork, stunning celings. It is crammed with stuff to see. And the hall, well that was a belter too, the decay is starting to have quite an effect in there now.
Personally I loved the little windows above the split corridor. They are a thing of beauty!
Met Sweetpea & Dirty Jigsaw whilst we were there, good to see you guys!
Anyway, on with the pics! Picture heavy as always lol
Nice little staircase
And another
The stunning hall
Sorry about this shot, I was using my wide angle and it blurred it.
This was one of my favourite bits
from the safe in what I think was the post office
Those beautiful windows
Clocktower
The external
