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Aerial view of the red-brick Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea, a symmetrical complex of wards around a central water tower, with housing to one side and fields beyond
Swansea Bay University Health Board

CEFN COED: £27.9m to shore up the UK’s oldest working mental health hospital, and move Neath Port Talbot’s ward into it

The health board wants Welsh Government money to make its oldest mental health wards safe, and to bring Neath Port…

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Alastair Isaac
The former Odeon cinema building in Llanelli with its curved Art Deco corner tower, seen from the street in daylight
B&R Urban Explorers UK

THEATR ELLI: Inside Llanelli’s lost Odeon, where the projectors still stand and the reels never left

Urban explorers' photographs from inside the Grade II listed cinema show the projection room still stacked with film reels, an…

Exterior of the abandoned former Manselton School in Swansea, a three-storey Victorian stone building with turrets, boarded ground-floor windows and weeds growing through the yard
B&R Urban Explorers UK

MANSELTON: Star of the Week stars still hang inside the Victorian school left empty for a decade

Urban explorers' photographs show classrooms left as they were when the last pupils moved out in 2015 inside the Grade…

Two-panel image showing the red-brick Technical College tower entrance and an abandoned lecture theatre inside
B&R Urban Explorers UK

MOUNT PLEASANT: Inside Swansea’s abandoned Technical College — the building time forgot

Urban explorers' images show the former UWTSD Mount Pleasant campus — the 1931 Technical College — as it stands today:…

Split image showing the exterior of the closed Frankie & Benny's in Llanelli and its abandoned interior with chairs stacked on the bar
B&R Urban Explorers UK

LLANELLI: Menus still in the window, salt on the tables — inside the Frankie & Benny’s frozen in time since 2020

Urban explorers' photographs show the Parc Pemberton restaurant much as staff left it when Covid closed the doors — as…

A four-panel composite showing a derelict Edwardian cinema facade, an Art Deco cinema tower, an aerial view of a ruined overgrown chapel, and an abandoned pub gable.
Aberdulais

HERITAGE AT RISK: Two silent cinemas, two crumbling chapels and a lost village pub — five local landmarks join UK register of buildings in danger of being lost for good

Two cinemas — Swansea's Elysium and Llanelli's Art Deco Odeon — plus two Llanelli chapels and the Dulais Rock pub…

A white security van parked behind metal fencing beside a sign reading "Stradey Park Hotel", with the closed hotel buildings behind
Ahsan Ullah

LLANELLI: Stradey Park Hotel ‘left powered-up with beds made’ as urban explorers film inside closed landmark — sparking police warning

Dyfed-Powys Police have warned people to stay out of the shuttered Stradey Park Hotel after several groups filmed their way…

Montage showing the exterior of Swansea’s Elysium Theatre, a decaying interior with a calendar book, and a broken auditorium with red ceiling and overturned seats.
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Urban explorers reveal hidden interior of Swansea’s long-abandoned Elysium Theatre

A married couple with a passion for urban exploration have captured a rare glimpse inside one of Swansea’s most mysterious…

Cefn Coed Hospital

Trespassers warned to stay off hospital’s private land

Following a spate of break-ins at disused parts of Cefn Coed Hospital, security has been stepped up and a warning…