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High Royds -May 2015

Ferox

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Finally got back to see the parts that i missed. Visited this time with Paul 2129 off 28DL. Managed to have a good look around on this occasion and covered all we wanted to see. Really glad i got back for another look, there is some awesome stuff to see in here. The corridors look spooky as hell in the early light :)

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 was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards. 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.

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.

In its final years of operation, High Royds had become outdated and unsuited to modern psychiatric practice. As part of Leeds Mental Health's £47 million reprovision process it was closed, with the wards being relocated to various community mental health units within the city of Leeds in the three years leading up to its closure. These include the Becklin Centre in St James' Hospital and the Mount in the city centre. The hospital was closed in stages between 25 February 2003 and June of the same year.

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Thanks For Looking (y)

 

hamtagger

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Good stuff mate!! Wouldn't mind having a look here too sometime. Mint pics, love that mosaic work (y)

 

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Nice work bud, re-visit me thinks :)

 

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Good stuff mate!! Wouldn't mind having a look here too sometime. Mint pics, love that mosaic work (y)
Thanks bud (y) Well worth a look mate. Some great stuff to see.

 

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Good to see a bit more of the place.

Nice work there :D

 

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Good to see a bit more of the place.Nice work there :D
Thanks S.k (y) Really enjoyed getting back here.

 
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