Last Alteration: Monday 28 July 2008
Holiday Retirement
Holiday Retirement
Hamadryad Road, Cardiff, Wales
Formerly known as Royal Hamadryad Hospital
The Royal Hamadryad Hospital was opened in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, replacing the Hamadryad Hospital Ship that had been in service from 1866. Originally to care for seafarers, it then became a hospital for mental illness in the 1970s. With the opening of the new St. David's Hospital in 2002, the Hamadryad was no longer in use, and has now been bought by Holiday Retirement - a firm dealing with luxury retirement homes in a number of places around the UK.
Holiday Retirement have planning consent for the grounds, but it is not clear at present whether this means they will demolish the original building or not.
How to get here:
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No route recorded to this location.
Access: publicStatus: recognisableSide
Photograph taken: 23rd July 2008 by Chuck Foster
Rise of the Cybermen
Filmed: 28 Nov 2005
The Reapers pull up at headquarters.
Where to walk to next?
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Hunter Street (Turn Left). Hunter Street adjoins Hamadryad Street at its end (pedestrian bit), and filming was by the alleyway.
Additional locations as the crow flies:
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A4232 (Grangetown/Butetown Link) (Everything Changes, The Runaway Bride, The Mark of the Beserker): 0.10 miles.
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Windsor Esplanade (Greeks Bearing Gifts): 0.20 miles.
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Taff Terrace (Rose, The Long Game): 0.29 miles.
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St David's Hotel (Ghost Machine, Countrycide, Out of Time): 0.30 miles.
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Baltic House (The Christmas Invasion): 0.30 miles.
Further links about the location
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Holiday Retirement - Official Site
Related Stories
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Rise of the Cybermen [28 Nov 2005]: The Reapers pull up outside headquarters.
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