Savileā€™s Sex Den

By Mark McConville

LOOK inside this creepy abandoned psychiatric hospital where Jimmy Savile once carried out a string of sexual assaults during a summer gala.

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

Eerie pictures and video show the crumbling remains of the hospital building while the sprawling grounds still seem in good condition.

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

Other shots show what was once a grand hall deteriorating at the hands of time and a barred gate which would have separated wards.

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

The images and footage were taken at High Royds Hospital in Menston, West Yorkshire by bartender Kieran Young (20) from Colne who posts as Exploring Lancashire.

ā€œI had been here a few times previous but never found a way in,ā€ he said.

ā€œI’ve always love the look of Victorian buildings so this really took my eye so I kept going back to get in. After five or six attempts I finally got in with a friend.

ā€œMy pictures encapsulate the past while also showing the morbid reality of the present.ā€

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

According to an investigation report into a gala to mark the centenary of High Royds Hospital, published in June 2014, predator Saville groped women at the hospital during the event in 1988 and demanded a room in case he ā€˜pulled one of these young nursesā€™.

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

Staff said he cupped womenā€™s breasts and put his hands up someoneā€™s skirt but they did not formally complain at the time due to seeing it as an ā€˜occupational hazardā€™.

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

High Royds Hospital first opened on 8th October 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and closed in 2003.

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Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

The facility closed after becoming outdated and unsuited to modern psychiatric practice.

Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com
Exploring Lancashire / mediadrumworld.com

High Royds was only one of twenty-eight hospitals where Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to seventy-five over the decades he had access to victims.