Ffordd Allan

"Ffordd" is Welsh for way, a route.

Great hall shot Motts. Colin, is it possible they named their hallways or "areas" after people? "Allen Way", perhaps?

My grandmother says that it translates to "Able way" or the "Way we were able." It's suppose to mean "Exit" Or the way out of a building. She remembers the signs when she was a wee school girl.

it's a great picture......you do great work.

Before there was a shot which looked like a hallway in heaven. This looks like a door to hell.

love it!

"Ffordd Allan" = Way Out

Although they never actually taught Welsh in my old school, I've managed to pick up a few phrases here and there, mostly from bilingual signs... this is one of the very few things I can say in Welsh!

Glad you managed to pay a visit to my country, Motts! Thanks for doing it justice, and for posting your beautiful pictures here for all to see. :)

If that's the way out then I think I'll just stay right here.

This does look like a door into hell, but once you get to the light on the other side you'll be fine...until you reach the next dark patch.

DoomHamster, Or anybody out there that can help me. I'm trying to trace my Welish, Irish Geneoligy. Can anybody out there help me???????

Nevermore....have you tried ancestry.co.uk?

You can access birth, death and marriage records there for free so if you have some names and dates of birth/death you could use those. Or the national census records. Some of those are free too.

I just started my family tree on there!

THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH. I live in the US . I have my G-Mothers B-certifocate from Newry N. Ireland and Her mom and Dad's Marriage License from Ireland but I just really don"t know where to go from here. Mu G-Mother and G-Grandmother came to the States, but dont know exactly when. Any help you could give me would MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!

You're welcome. If you need any help let me know!

Wow, amazing photo Motts!

See, this is one of those photos that i feel fear flowing through my body. ...

Wicked..

Wonderful work Motts!

looks like th ideal set for a crap your pants horror movie :-p

I live ten miles from "Denbigh Mental" as we call it. My friend was taken there after a complete mental breakdown in 1968. I went to visit her and walked down this corridor to the ward. There were people standing against the walls talking to themselves and completely unaware of passing people. when I reached the ward there were beds set in rows against the walls and down the middle. As I passed some beds there was a figure lying in one of them, all covered up, one of the patients laughed and pulled the covers back, it was a wax dummy with its mouth open. At that moment I nearly fainted. It was a fabulous building but the inside was frightening. The care the patients received was excellent but Maggie Thatcher closed all these hospitals and put over 1000 people out of work in Denbigh. Denbigh is an ancient market town close to the moors. fabulous photos!

I have just found a website for Denbigh castle, it includes links to all the North Wales castles built by Edward 1 and some history of our Welsh Princes and battles with the English, you might find it interesting
www.castlewales.com/denbigh

ffordd allen means way out

familytree.com helped me trace my roots 8 generations, staring with myself, within my Irish ancestory. Ellis Island has their own web page too. I got to see the ship's manefest that my Great, Great Grandfather came on from Ireland when he immigrated to the US.

spelled: allan
mean exit, allanfa!
lluniau arbennnig o dda!

way out
hehe
i live about 30 minutes from denbigh
never had the courage to venture inside
these pictures enthrall me
ive been on this site for the past hour!
where are you based?

wow
thats a long way away..
denbigh mental (as all us teenagers here call it :])
gave me chills just standing at the gate
does anyone believe its actually haunted?
i mean, it must be hard not to be
all those tortued souls =/

It means 'way Out'

O_O wow Lynda actually walked down this hallway?

This picture makes me shudder with some sort of happiness heh. I really like this type of picture

As far as the eye can see........this great shot makes it feel like there is no end to this hallway!

ffordd allan - way out. never seen the hospital like this b4... really interesting to see.

It means way out - or its a make of a car :P

That place is Weird !. they should reopen it or make a film about it =D

I am a denbigh resident now living in edinburgh, or NEAR edinburgh. Denbigh Mental, from wha I can remember was a horrible place. It looks even worse now that it lies empty. I used to have to go there as a child of 4 or 5 for my EEGs (i was epileptic) because that was the only hospital at the tine that did them so regularly.
I remember sitting in a whitewashed room with a one way window/mirror and a room on the other side with all the equipment (god it was ancient then and it was the 1980s) and I was sat on the opposite side on a bed that looked more like a morgue slab.

They should really do something with the place becauseit's a real shame. 100yrs gone to the ground because of damn maggie thatcher.

And yes, Ffordd Allan means way out...even though the LITERAL translation would become ROAD EXIT...lol

Exellent photography, i too have been in this wonderfull building, such a shame to see it in its state now :(

This hospital is due for demolition in 3 weeks time.....
http://www.eveninglead...ready-for.4561833.jp

this place is being demolished in a few weeks after the most haunted tv have finished filming a show there, it would be worth going there to explore the place if you havent been. The best way in

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some one drives around the place

would love to go around, but would you not get in trouble??

the sign says "Way Out" in welsh, I live about 15 minutes away

Ffordd Allan Means Way Out :)

Fordd Allan means "way out"

Is it just me or does it look asthough there are two figures standing opposite one another at the far end...

This place is amazing and has me absolutely fascinated. I was channel hopping and saw it on 'Most Haunted', which I'm sure it isn't (and I certainly do not believe in Ghosts), but I love mooching round old, abandoned buildings. I am devastated to hear that it is to be demolished and will try to get up there before it is gone forever. I don't live far away (just outside of Bath), anyone fancy joining me? Let me know. 'matthewmslater@btinternet.com'

Ffordd Allan means way out in welsh !

allan means out so the whole thing means way out. its a shame the place burnt down now after most haunted were there.

way out, exit

its just a Exit sign, nothing mystical. :D

i was a patient on Arenig ward and others too i was so ill at the time,it was a great help to me then but not the several doses of ECT;;;;;;;. i would never want to enter such a place EVER again, when i was taken there after closure,i cried about what i had gone through as a patient at that time, but it,s very sad to see the building in such a state these days , i blame the tories for this,,,,, and people want them back ??????

Can you imagine how much the place cost to run on heating alone, not to mention the upkeep of such an old building???? Best thing the tories did was close all them places down, saves the tax payers a fortune!!! (Those who pay tax anyhow). Shame it wasn`t turned into something else though, was a nice building in it`s day.

the literal translation for this is 'exit road'
....'ffordd' in welsh means road and 'allan' is exit or out

According to the translator this sign means "no way out"

It *is* 'Way Out'. Honest! If it was 'No Way Out' it'd be 'Dim Ffordd Allan' (I'm a fluent Welsh speaker :)

Ffordd allan means Way out! Im welsh u see ;)

lol find most of these comments weird as how many of you have actually been in the place and not just looked at the pictures ? well i have been in there at 2 oclock in the morning last year before the building work started around it and it is a very eiry place to be. Although some of the rooms looked like they where been done up such as new tiles on the walls and newley plastered walls i found very strange to be honest. There was weird noises and corridors blocked off by the rubblle and fallen down ceilings. Bearing in mind this place only closed down in 1995 the deteriation of the place is amazing. Lots of weird things happened there when i went with a group of friends such as, the danger dogs patrolling sign was wrong even though in one of the pictures we took there is a dog standing between my two friends but we never saw it there or heard it, surely it would have barked or something if it was ment to be guarding the building. Must say though it is a beautifull building and would love to see it restored. On one hand feel sorry for the people that got experimented on there but on the other it has helped in todays society of medicines and the way surgery is conducted.

and can i just say why would a modern hosptial that closed 1995, have signs saying no way out!!!!!!

NO YOUR TRAPPED!!!!!! you dont see that in glan clwyd abblet unit!!!!!

it is a old mental hospital ............... not a prison or AUSWTIZ!!!!!!!

Jude, you're right about them naming things after places in Wales.

I'm Italian, but moved to Wales when I was very little. (I'm still quite small now, at 4'11!)

I live near Denbigh, and went to school in the North Wales area. Hospitals still use welsh place names for their wards, and my secondary school used Welsh river names for the different houses in the school.

This is stupid.

I took welsh GCSE

it means way out.

no translation my bum.

"Fordd Allan" means "Way out" In Welsh. I know this because I am welsh and live around this area :)

hefyd mae llynia ma yn diddorol iawn, ond swni byth yn mynd yna. Rhy ofn i ddeud y gwir..

"Also these pictures are very interesting, but I would never go there. Too scary to be honest."

x

Oh My God!
If you look right at the end of the corridor to where the grey bit is.. on the left hand side it SO LOOKS LIKE THERES A PERSON THERE!!

it's the exit sign. for some reason in wales they have their signs in cymru (with an english translation) even though most welsh people have no idea how to speak it!

I think you mean 'in Cymraeg;' NatStarr. Please dont insult us with your ignorance! This hospital was the first Welsh language hospital of its kind, hence the Welsh signs. And why not have Welsh signs in Wales? I bet they have French signs in France dont you think? You may be surprised how many of us are Welsh speakers, especially in this area. Best check your facts dear. And learn some Welsh at the same time.

WOW! this picture gives me the goosebumps

wow Slebs take a chill pill!

' i have never heard, of this hosptial. this is something new. i have read a lot about different haunted hosptials, and waverly hills; tuberculosis haunted hosptials is indeed' to me the most haunted. why with 66.000 patients died, and the body chute. and room 502, where two nurses killed themselves. lucy ann