Un grande corridoio nell'ex asilo. WEST YORKSHIRE; UK: Fotografie AGGHIACCIANTI hanno mostrato all'interno di un ospedale psichiatrico abbandonato dove Jimmy Savile
A grand hallway in the former asylum. WEST YORKSHIRE; UK: CHILLING photographs have shown inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital where Jimmy Savile once preyed on the patients and even STAFF were not safe from his abuse until one brave whistle blowing nurse stepped forward to expose the coverup. High Royds hospital in Menston, West Yorkshire, opened in 1888 and closed in 2003. The sprawling estate had its own butcher, dairy farm, bakery, shops, cobbler's workshops and gardens and farmland on which patients were put to work. In the 1980s, there were reports of sexual assaults against staff and patients by Savile, who used his celebrity status to get close to the vulnerable but, tragically, these were not taken seriously at the time. Derelict for 20 years, the building is falling into ruin as shown in haunting photographs by urban explorer and photographer only known as Hippie Alien Explores who spent two hours in its shell. In the images, empty corridors contained pools of water that glittered eerily in the half-light, paint peeled from the walls in entire sheets, and an ominous piece of graffiti read, ?I died here.? The only part of the hospital largely intact was the Victorian tiling, which gave an echo of how grand the building once was in design. Huge barred gates in archways gave a stark reminder of the prison-like reality for many of the patients being treated here. ?High Royds had a very uneasy feeling while walking around taking photos; knowing the history of the place before going and how the patients were treated just added to the feeling of strange unease ? to be walking around where so many bad things have happened, ? said the explorer. ?I loved the long corridors and the shots of them, they had an eerie, spookiness to them which perfectly captured the feel and history of the place. ?There were reports of abuse at High Royds carried out by Jimmy Savile in the 1980s. ?It is said that the hospital closed down after an undercover nurse came forward with inf
