[Jim Gillette]

Seems like I've been on some sort of abandoned place binge recently, and it was only a matter of time before I visited an asylum.

I remember when I was in school aged 14 when friends showed up with blueprints of nearby Denbigh asylum that they found in the basement there after a visit the previous weekend. The place had been on my radar since then, but despite having actually lived in the town, and spending countless drunken nights at my friend's house directly adjacent, it's taken 8 years since I saw those blueprints for me to finally get around to seeing it.

With news this week that demolition teams had moved in, I thought I should hop to it and see this asylum pretty sharpish.

In the three days since Wye Valley Demolition had moved in, they seem to have sealed off the main building at the front of the site (not impossible to get into it by any means) and will probably destroy most of the internal parts and retain the shell of the building.

Anyway, photographing decay, in daylight, is something almost completely alien to me. I've found that photographing in conditions that aren't pitch black like in drains is quite challenging, so please excuse my rather average attempts the same way you would forgive a new member!

It's an asylum. UrbEx laws dictate a photo of the morgue slab...










Go and find these guys online and ask them on their website's guestbook if they make a habit of vandalising listed buildings. I have!






Notice the new fencing...

Thanks for reading.

[keeweeman]

i would be over the moon if thats as watertight as they plan to make it lol

[The-Village-Idiot]

Great pictures You can never see enough reports of this place.

[Jim Gillette]

Thanks

[Gone]

Nice one man, I can remember that slab being 3 times the size of that!

[Kenni]

I emailed the paranormal people and this is their reply -

hi there i see you sent a message in regards to our name at denbigh??
who are you if you dont mind me asking?? and how did you see the message??
we did it as others did the same as you can see
by all means we are more than willing to go and rub it off if it upsetting people
all the best the flintshire paranormal team

[Snake Oil]

tell them they wrote on the wall that you float through on the stroke of midnight every night for the past 100 years

[Kenni]

I might just do that

[The-Village-Idiot]

Tell them your name is Beardy and your dog wants to meet them

[scrappy]

good stuff, its a shame the floors are so messed up here now!