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Had a look around this weekend EVERYTHING has been flattened, even the main admin building which I thought had a preservation order/ listed building on it.
Great shame so many good & lovely building's & architecture gone forever, all in the name of greedy builders building little boxes they call houses. Who in their right frame of mind wants to live next to a Mental Secure Unit

sadly all gone now and unfortunately fenced off so its not possible to goet in and see how it all looks with all the buildings gone, apart from St Johns church which is a listed building.

I live in one of the few remaining buildings that was part of the hospital estate

How very sad that the ballroom is gone. Wonder what happened to the 'soap dispensers' hanging from the ceiling? (Sorry, Motts, that'll just never go away). They're beautiful; would love to have one or two of those hanging in my house.

I just can't keep from staring at this pic. Like BloodLust wrote, I feel like I'm looking through a portal back into dimension/time.

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Part of the development of homes at the former Whittingham Mental Asylum have been named.

Two soldiers who fought in the First World War and were treated at the mental hospital are to be remembered with roads in their honour.

Tattersall Road and Joyce Road will feature in the development.
(From The Lancashire Evening Post)
It was such a beautiful building. I'm glad I got to see it when I did.

Im just wondering if the Asylum is still up and what security firm it is that is patroling there? if anyone knows
As I want to go there and take a look around! old places like that is lovely! seriously

Head shop and record shop. Now also gone sadly

Rowan is a tree. Many of the later names in use at this time had such names. High dependency literally means needing high levels of support to meet their needs. This may have included violence on occasions but other complexities also

This is in fact the rear of the main St Luke Division. By my time (I started working there in 1981) it was called The Lawns and was the main social centre for patients. It afforded amazing views of the surrounding countryside with rolling vistas. I imagine it was originally living quarters for an important person

Wow. I must have walked past that old picture so many times over the years. Got a sense of a flashback looking at that photo

As of this week the old ballroom, as it was called, had only one side wall and the rear wall with a very precarious roof but that large hanging decoration was still there - literally hanging by a thread

The Chapel was RE and was still used by the local villagers into the 90s. The pillars were common throughout the main complex of St Luke - down all corridors and within wards.

The local youths used to vandalise the place but it actually became quite dangerous. The police used the buildings to train their search dogs. The sign was likely to just deter the locals for their own safety. There was little of value by this time.