Sunday 16 January 2011

Talgarth Hospital today





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3 comments:

MacDuff said...

Great pictures.
It doesn't look sad to me but rather an exciting and romantic location. I am surprised and pleased to see that it is hanging on to its past.
Long may it remain this way - 'unimproved'. I think it sadder to think that inevitably it will become converted to something not worth a second look.

18 January 2011 at 07:08
Eigon said...

It's sad to me, because I remember it when it was still in use as a hospital, and it had the potential to be something useful and beautiful for Talgarth, and create local jobs, when the hospital closed down. All that potential went down the drain, and now it would take untold amounts of money even to get it back to the state it was in when it first closed.

18 January 2011 at 10:21
MacDuff said...

I remember it too as a hospital. I remember being shown round in the 1960’s and in particular an aversion therapy room which was kitted out like a regular pub. A patient drinking or playing the fruit machine would receive a random electric shock.
It is pity that it is not still a hospital but turning it into a theme park or block of flats or an industrial estate or almost anything else I can think of would be no improvement. It should be left as a monument to crumble away like a medaeval castle – there are too few such places these days. Is any building more interesting when you take the bus to Hereford for example than that wreck of a cottage on the left hand side of the road – I cant remember the exact location. Consider the Three Tuns under Lucy’s tenure and now which state is more memorable or more pleasurable to the imagination. I rest my case.

18 January 2011 at 10:54

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