High Royds Lunatic Asylum Menston Yorkshire

One of the secrity guards at liberty park used to work here, he said it was a very surreal part of his life. High Royds was a lunatic asylum from 8 October 1888, which closed down in February 2003.



This promted my flatmates Holly and Vo to do a photography shoot there, as there title for there current project was surrealism and can the camera ever lie. We made a day trip of it, it is located in Menston en route to Bradford. It was easy to get in, there were broken windows so we climbed through one of them. All corridors were deserted, darkly light, yet all in perfect condition - magnificent wallpaper and high rised pattern ceilings and brass plated doors, it almost seemed too precious to have been abandonded.