{"id":23,"date":"2008-03-15T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:28:11","slug":"high-royds-lunatic-asylum-menston-urban-un-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/high-royds-lunatic-asylum-menston-urban-un-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"High Royds lunatic asylum, Menston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A tale of Urban Un-exploration<\/strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a guy on our ePHOTOzine called Tom who&#8217;s an urban explorer and posted up some great shots of the lunatic asylum at High Royds. There are some superb arches, eerie corridors, fabulous windows and great staircases. It&#8217;s a photographer&#8217;s paridise. So rather than risk the security guards I thought I&#8217;d write to ask permission to take a few legal shots.<br \/>\nThe reply was <em>&#8220;<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"black\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Unfortunately we cannot allow anyone on site now because of our ongoing building works and health and safety considerations.&#8221;<\/span><\/font> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I suggested I&#8217;d waiver all legal claims should anything happen and said I&#8217;d just need a couple of hours and act responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>But the answer was still no. Sadly I won&#8217;t be able to capture the images, so have to thank the guys on sites like 28Days Later for their bold efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tale of Urban Un-exploration There&#8217;s a guy on our ePHOTOzine called Tom who&#8217;s an urban explorer and posted up some great shots of the lunatic asylum at High Royds. There are some superb arches, eerie corridors, fabulous windows and great staircases. It&#8217;s a photographer&#8217;s paridise. So rather than risk the security guards I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,181,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-out-and-about","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}