INSIDE Whitchurch Insane Asylum - ABANDONED Mental Institutes

Whitchurch Asylum opened in 1908 in south Wales, 2 miles of corridors connect a total of ten wards, designed to accommodate 750 patients.

It was a self-contained institute, with its own farm, bakery, dance hall, 800-seat church and even a clothing shop.

During both the first and second World War, the facility was taken over by the military.

It was undoubtedly a product of Victorian Age thinking and medical practice.

‘People would be spending their lives there, so it had to function like a self-contained society," said a former nurse.

‘We had some good results, but a lot died’ said Dr Morfydd Keen. ‘The people who have stayed are ingrained in the walls, there are a lot of ghosts of people that seep into you.’

In the 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and by the 2000s it was considered unsuitable for the requirements of the 21st century and the doors were locked for the last time in April 2016.

It remains today as one of the UKs only abandoned asylums, an eerie, decaying shell of a bygone era…

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