This is the veiw from the City Road car park. This was the main parking place for the hospital. This picture lets you see most of the main elements of the site giving an idea of how much the site has expanded over the years. In the distance, just to the right of the chimney, is the oldest of the building dating back to the 1790's and part built by Napoleonic prisoners. To its right, the 1908 extension and then the white section. This seems to date from between the two world wars, different parts added at different times. Then there's the white outbuildings in front of that in the middle, from around the 1950's.At the front left, one of the newest sections of the site, the Gwaynten Unit. This must have been mid 1980's as it's still pretty new but any later and they'd have built it at the new hospital (The infamous Treliske!). Finally the 1960's brown, wooden buildings. The one in the forground is now the guard's hut.

This is the Gwaynten Unit from the front. This is the most recently closed building having been open until about five months ago (around March 2004). I'm unsure exactly what it was used for, but I think it was some form of day care for the elderly.

Below is the garden. Now overgrown, it is obvious that it was well tended until fairly recently. The yellow flowers are a nasty little plant called Ragwort. Poisonous to several animals. A horse can die from eating one plant.

This is a slightly drunken shot of the hospital from the Gwaynten Unit. You can go to the left round the front of the old section or right up to the side of the white building. Certain parts, of the hospital, are protected from the forthcoming demolition. The remarkable sandstone building is, I'm pleased to say, one of them. Another is the un-remarkable 1940's(ish) incinerator! Why that needs preserving is anyones guess. All that'll happen is it will grow rotten and need money spending on it.