CARMARTHEN’S DISNEY LAND?

FLASHBACK  - earlier this year.

Whilst at college each day I passed a small portion of Saint David’s Park on the outskirts of Carmarthen. 

It always intrigued me and the other day I made a visit and took some photographs. Laying all these photographs into end and they were not many, it was easy to compose paintings. 

Seeing a photograph of the entrance of Disney's  ‘Magic Kingdom’ in Florida it was easy to translate the high camp Gothic of Disneyland into the Gothic of Saint David’s. And the colourways were perfect. 

Studying the architecture: It all late Victorian Gothic including, round the corner from here a remarkable chapel Grade II listed. It was built by the inmates for St David’s was the county asylum. 1865 – 2003  

St David’s now has a much neglected and is falling apart kind of place Disneyland on the other hand is over the top Gothic everything pink, gold, and blue, and is the place to have fun. 

Circa 1950s

I found a photograph of what St David’s used to look like when it was a mental hospital. Then I got to thinking about the Gothic and the idea of Disneyland popped into my head. 

St David's Hospital was a vast. A Victorian asylum set on a hilltop west of Carmarthen, overlooking the town and enjoying wide views over the Tywi Valley.