If only walls could speak. Inside the former Whittingham mental hospital. Pic: scrappynw The history of a former mental asylum on the outskirts of Preston is to be explored. Whittingham […]

Major new housing developments on the former Whittingham Mental Hospital are expected to be unlocked by the Broughton Bypass. The Homes and Communities Agency is currently demolishing much of the […]

The first roads to be built as part of the development of homes at the former Whittingham Mental Asylum have been named. Two soldiers who fought in the First World […]

Once one of the largest mental hospitals in the country, these haunting pictures show the demolition of the Whittingham Mental Hospital. Sitting just on the edge of Preston the buildings […]

The next stage of developing Whittingham Mental Asylum has begun as the bulldozers set in. Plans to build 650 homes on the site were given the green light and the […]

Two parish councils have decided to object to plans to demolish the former Whittingham Mental Asylum. The former hospital is earmarked to become hundreds of new homes but parish councillors […]

Ever wondered what the former Whittingham Asylum is like inside? After we featured pictures inside the old St Joseph’s Orphanage and Mount Street Hospital here’s another old Preston institution laid […]

These photos show the former Whittingham Mental Asylum from above. David Gaskell captured these photos during a flight over the city and surrounding countryside. The Whittingham site is due to […]