Closing of Whitchurch Hospital Cardiff

Considered "cutting edge," the Cardiff City Asylum Hospital opened on 15 April 1908 and took ten years to build, costing £350,000 (about £37.5m in today's money). It closed its doors to patients 108 years later, in 2016.

I was fortunate to document the closure of Whitchurch Hospital Cardiff during 2015 and 2016 by taking hundreds of images inside and out of the hospital for the Historical Society. The photos were then displayed at Whitchurch during their exhibition to mark its closure in 2016 and its 108th anniversary.

Some images were later exhibited briefly in Llandough Hospital before the Historical Society used them again for publicity and further exhibitions. Please look at the smartphone app for just some of the images.

Sun shining between the dark clouded sky over the main building at Whitchurch Hospital Cardiff.

The exhibition flyer