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The only creeping thing that i saw on my visit to Kings Park was in one of the building (at the fork in the road by the smoke stack we took a right, and the building i am refeering to is on the left down the road a ways) a rather large building about 6 stories if my memory isn't failing me - about 4 stories up i saw a light flutter on and off about 3 times in a romote room. Other than that the "it is haunted" sceem doesn't seem viable, maby it's because I dont believe in those kinds of things or i just am in denial but i saw nothing that would prove otherwise. One thing i have to ask now; Does KPPC ever "call" anybody back ever since i've first gone i have had urges to go back and see more and explore, am i the only one that gets this?

ships hulls nearto and below the waterline tend to be treated with different paints to those above the waterline. below water they get treated with antifowling paint, this has a chemical in it that prevents growths of weed algae and limpets etc, this paint tends to be more hard wearing that ordinary rustproofing paint used above the waterline. most hulls tend to get treated about 2metres or sometimes more above the waterline.

ive just realised where this is, this is taken on ward 3, and the entrance is to the langdale unit, the lancashire interim secure unit, where dangerous mentally ill patients were sectioned to for their own and the publics protection. hence the removal of the glass and any way of seeing in. in all my time there, i never once saw these doors open.

cameron house wasnt destroyed by fire. the health authority realised that the slated had some valus, so they stripped the roof of and sold the lot!!!

willy banjo is a shop in preston that sells bongs and other erm, herbal smoking paraphenalia

i think the effect is the light outside, and the dark inside, coupled with the damage to the doors, have you noticed, one has been damaged from inisde the room and one from outside.

as a plumber there in the 1980's i replaced most of the lead on this roof, happy days!!!

this is definately ward 12 taken from ward 11. the low roof just below the treeline is the laundry

of course theres a more mundane explanation for the boarding up of windows.in the early pic the patients would be locked in cells or very very heavily sedated, and there would be a high ratio of staff to patients, however, as sedatives developed, patients were more free to wander the hospital at will, and , well, its still a mental hospital, and glass isnt exactly a friendly material. also its not very private if the other side is not something that should be public, like a bathroom entrance or toilet for example.

and yes, that is the same shot!!

many many moons ago these would have been the ubiquitous padded cell. obviously the doors arent original. drug advancements eant that the padded cell was out of use many many decades ago, these small rooms were all offices and staff rooms or store rooms by the 1970's the x's might have amore recent explanation. after wjhittingham shut., lancashire police used the empty buildings to train its dog teams in search techniques, so the x's might have indicated that the rooms had been searched in some exercise.

this is one of the only open corridors at whittingham, directly opposite the open side of the corridor is the dballroom, behind the wall to the right is the supervisors private allotment garden(see last picture)

and, yes, thats a tiled floor.

this is the lawns complex. when the hospital was built, the superintendant lived on site, in a big 'house' that was a part of the hospital, linked by 2 corridors, but seperate, locked off and private. it was a huge dwelling with about 7 or 8 bedrooms, offices , even a large private garden and allotment.etc etc. in late years, it was refurbished as a day centre for patients, with a cafe(where my wife worked) a shop, and a tv lounge, upstairs was a small library, a pool table and a full size snooker table, there was also a quiet lounge. and s taff room where the nursing staff devisede things to help the patients pass the day. the connection with the superintendant wasnt completely lost though. anyone who worked there will have known the road that leads up past this building from haighton mannor as 'supers(superintendants) hill'

i think this is in the laundry store room

this is either ward 7 taken from ward 6 or ward 14 taken from ward 15. the building was built with a mirror image of itself, as you will see from the google earth pics, so this could be either, a bit of detail in the background might make it easier to id, but i would think its probably ward 7