Poet and writer Jhilmil Breckenridge, who is leading the creative writing workshops Pic: Jhilmil Breckenridge A series of free creative writing sessions will explore the history of a former mental […]

Inside the old music hall in Whittingham Pic: scrappyNW An event to explore and immerse yourself in the history of a former mental asylum is taking place in Preston. Whittingham […]

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 […]

Further plans for the former Whittingham Mental Hospital have been tabled. Taylor Wimpey have submitted a reserved matters application giving details of how 132 new houses and 18 new apartments […]

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 […]

Plans to demolish the former Whittingham Mental Asylum and build hundreds of new homes have been lodged again with Preston City Council. Bouyed by the resubmission of the plan to […]