Locked

That looks like on of my happy arched doors, converted to flat top. lol

You must do a montage about that, Weebs! :-)

I hope they didn't leave someone in there after all of these years

I like how they pained the frame around the window & the outside white, but left the door wooden. That's something you don't see every day.

Lets see...how old was that tree? Lets count the rings......THAT was one BIG tree!!

Oh My God! This is where they hid the bodies!

Confess Lynne we have you and your kind figured out!

LOL this is a joke of course. :-)

awww man, id have to try and take the lock apart....and then with the door open...reconstruct it on the door (for respects sake) just to see whats there...*sigh*

Maybe when you put the key in and turned it, you used the key itself as a handle.

I would say its a retro fit. New door in the old doorway....as to getting in it.....the hing pins are on the outside...not hard to get it open....and then put it back of course....just incase they did forget someone.

Did you shine a light in the little broken window and see what was in there?

Well, that's suspicious...

The hinges are on this side. Possibly the hinge pins could have been removed without damaging the door and then put back when you were done satisfying your curiosity.

quite the mystery..... start the eerie music

Wow, what I would give to see a photo of what was in there. Still locked...and nothing else was really locked...Wonder whats in there, and why they locked it. And blocked the window. Maybe it was full of documents or machinery or something like that...

i am a firm believer in preservation and i would never destroy anything out of curiosity, so the hinge thing is a fabuluose idea,but i would realy need to see whats in there. ill probably dream about it tonight

Oh curse my curiosity. And it looks like if you just pry at the door near the top it'll move at least a little. But for preservation's sake...let's go with removing the pins.

OH THE UNKNOWN!!!!!! We'll never know what's behind the door. Leave them wanting more. Good job Mr. Motts

Please tell us you're gonna go back and pick that lock? You're planting seeds on everyone's imagination and not watering them!!! :-D

Still, what a striking shot for its simplicity. It looks so humble but it has such a complex effect!

theres a better chance of being toxic waste in that room than treasure, but i guess you never know until you find out.

Has the small window been painted at one time?

Motts, it isn't fair to include pictures like this. Now we all want to know what is on the otherside of the door and no body can tell us.
:-(

thats weird.
really weird..

does any one know what is behind this door yet ??

My mother worked here for 14 years, leaving in 1989. She said the amount of suffering was unreal. Women were placed here for having a baby out of wed-lock, getting pregnant at a young age etc. and many patients were born here and died here. I live in Denbigh myself, and she's warned me never to go inside as there are stories of patients going back to the site and actually living there. It was a major source of employment for Denbigh during the time it was open, leading many people to think 'it was a wonderful place.' But some say otherwise, there have been many stories (and still are) about patients killing themselves and each other, escaping and hurting members of staff etc. and also, people escaping and commiting suicide off of the Castle walls. I know such much about this place =|

Also, I am told that behind the door was actually a cell.. The metal plate with two dots at the side of the door would have had two lights attached, which indicate whether or not the door was open or shut. Also the square above the door would have had a number on e.g. '14B'.

In those days most wards were locked (acute admissions wards are still locked today) and there were 'side rooms' (padded cells, effectively) where patients who were uncontrollable were locked for the protection of other patients. This might be one of them. I'm not quite sure how far things have progressed by today, to be quite honest.

Its a cell!!

I am DYING to know what is behind that door. I almost want to get there myself and kick down that door D<

i copyed and sent the link to some1 who worked there and he said its a papped cell, gonna try get into the building next month but they have security patroling so should be quite fun :D

padded*

Wow, Impulse...that's really eerie to hear.
They would lock people up for un-married pregnancy?

When I started work there in '82, there had not been padded rooms for years
This is a classical seclusion room exterior, the inside would look likeone of the earlier 'narrow room' photos
Impulse - spot on

Regarding placing a woman in a psychiatric hospital because she was unmarried and pregnant, i think the old belief went something like this: the social stigma, guilt, shame, censure, ostracism, embarrassment of getting pregnant before marriage was *so* great for the woman, her child, and her family, that any woman "in her right mind" who "fell" and had premarital sex, would immediately marry the man, even before finding out if a child had been conceived. With unwed pregnancy being such an extreme social disgrace, one that "ruined her life," any woman who found herself "in trouble" and didn't get married so that her child would be "legitimate" (and not a "bastard"), was obviously "out of her mind" or "insane." I recall being told by older female members of my family that they didn't know which was worse, a girl who had premarital sex and got pregnant, or a girl who used birth control so that she wouldn't get pregnant when she had premarital sex. It can be very interesting to go through old marriage records and compare them to records of the first child born to the couple. In many, many cases full-term babies were born well before the couple had been married for at least nine months.