A walk around Cane Hill
"It's too late - there's a housing estate It's called High Royds" - Kaiser Chiefs - Highroyds I realise that housing estates built on former hospitals don't fit everyone's definition of beauty, but this is my blog so you'll have to indulge my bizarre interests. I've included some pretty photos including a fox and a cat. The song Highroyds from the Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs' 2007 album is a look back at their teenage years, testing their courage running around the High Royds asylum opposite the school several band members went to, north of Leeds. Towards the end of the song, in the present day, the band receive word from a relative that the asylum has now been converted into a housing estate. This seems to be the most common fate of former asylums, with typically a few iconic/listed buildings kept and converted and everything else demolished and replaced with modern housing. Following my previous post about former hospitals and a walk around Ne