1,611 Comments for Whittingham Hospital

WOW so old and thers so much detail but yet theres hardly anything on the picture this amazise me and i think that art like that should be worth millons !!!!

very good photography and i when i went it wasent like this so you have done some think buffed it out n your camra because its not like this in real life !

nopee i got caught on there with my family we got done soo i advise you not to go and if you do try not to get cought and stay clear of small rooms they callapsed on my friend it was funny but he hurt him self

i think this is nothing like it looks in real life and its not that dark as it looks here but yes a good picture

i mean pics .sorry for bad spelling:)))))

that is so cool:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))lol .
nice pick motts

what the fuege

sorry i had to... ^_^

What the YUCK!!

you lot forget that this was not a nice place to be, be it christmas or not my great nan was there as a mental patient trust me not a nice place at all. asylum, institution mental do these sound like nice words???? because these are the words used to describe the hell hole that is WHITTINGHAM MENTAL HOSPITAL...

I worked and trained here in the 70's Was a great place met some wonderful people bot staff and patients.

I remember dancing on this stage. And been presented with my nursing qualifications

Graham, it's the result of deinstitutionalization, a well-meaning but ultimately ineffective policy begun in the 1960s (though it really kicked into high gear in the 1980s) aimed at alleviating overcrowding and eliminating the need for long-term hospital stays. The ostensible goal was to transfer the care of the chronically mentally ill to communities, allowing people to live their lives outside the confines of an institution, but the net result was a huge increase in the homeless and prison populations because most communities lacked the resources (or the compassion) to adequately care for these people. The only real beneficiary of this policy was the state, which was no long obligated to provide funding for the treatment of the mentally ill. It happened in both the USA and the UK and it's a terrible shame. Many of the people had been in hospitals their entire lives and were completely unable to cope with life on the outside. Phil Collins's song "Take Me Home" is about this very subject.

i wonder what its like now :) i'm gonna go visit :P

most of the damage in the whole place has been casused by teenagers going there for a thrill to be scared... smashing things up... i shud no iv seen it first hand