So on a very warm summers evening I made my first visit to north wales hospital. The first sight you get of this place takes your breath away. I couldn't believe the size of it and there is lots more you cannot see from the road.
When entering the grounds you realise that the Vandals have made short work of any glass that they could get to with a stone, plus some had sprayed their tag names on the walls, a couple even managing to join the letters together.
After passing a group of small buildings that might of been used for storage, we visited the chapel(which has been stripped)and the morgue.this we found to have been vandalised.
The next building we found was used as a ward, the curtain rail for around the beds was still in place but not much else. After this we made our way to another building. This was much bigger,here you could see the damage the weather and the vandals had done, ceilings had come down, holes in the floor and paint doing its best to grip to the walls.all this added to the feeling of the place.
We found room after room, small doorways leading to more
rooms, large doorways leading to small rooms, long corridors blocked by a fallen ceiling, moss growing on the floor.Then we found the ballroom/gym. There is a lot of the floor missing in here and someone had burnt the stage down but you could still get the feel of what it was like, the glitter ball is still standing proud hanging on in there.
We then made our way upstairs, smashed basins and swirly carpets greeted us, was it a shadow I saw a couple of times in one of the rooms? I'm not sure.
On returning to the lower floors we made our way around the grounds again. It had started to go dark now and the wildlife had come out to break the silence that surrounds the hospital. We had a look in a few other buildings and found them to dangerous to enter, the bats had found a good use for them though. One building we found looked like it had been a ward.along one wall there was a row of single rooms that had a look of cells. In here we did some EVP work and on 2 occasions we heard what sounded like a female voice and the sound of parts of the roof falling. at the far end we found a really nice solid wood revolving door.
On leaving this area we realised we were not alone.we could hear voices some where in the grounds.at the last place we visited we heard the voices of two males,not knowing who they were or what they were doing in the hospital we decided to cut short our visit.
When we left the grounds we came upon 7 youngsters, after a bit of a chat we found they were there for the thrill of a fright, I think they got one. We made our way to a pub not far from the hospital, here the locals told us that since the hospital had closed the town had never been the same and how disappointed that the building had been left to fall apart.
If you go to Denbigh Asylum be careful this place gets into your head, it was about 10 days before I slept at night without thinking of the it. It's a weird and wonderful building, the size of it is something else, you would think a building of this size would be full of noise but no it's deadly quiet apart from the sound of a owl and the roof falling we heard nothing.
Just a few things to remember if you go to the asylum:
- It is so dangerous,so don't go alone.none of us had a signal on our phones and the last thing you want is to fall through to the basement on a disused asylum with no chance of help.
- On the night we visited there were 10 people in the grounds,all there to see what it was like inside.not everyone goes for these reasons.you never know who or what you'll bump into.
- It's easy to get lost make sure you remember your route.don't panic,to many holes in the floor for that.
- At no point did we force our way in,we only went through open doors and easy to access places.
- Take a torch even in the day time.
- The buildings are monitored by security.
- Enjoy the building and take a camera, it'll be hard to tell people how magnificent Denbigh is without the pictures to help.
Denbigh hospital is so fantasitc, but it's future needs sorting before it's to late. the town and it's people deserve more.
Use the link to my photo's to see a few pictures I've posted of the asylum.
Kathy has set up a Denbigh hospital blog and we would love to hear any tales from you about your visit or if you worked there.
