Whittingham Hospital in pictures – eerie echoes from inside Lancashire’s Victorian asylum
From stark wards to pantomimes and summer fetes, these remarkable photographs offer a haunting glimpse behind the walls of Lancashire's lost psychiatric hospital.
Long before its boarded windows and crumbling corridors became an eerie sight, Whittingham Hospital was a world of its own.
Opened in 1873, the vast psychiatric institution housed thousands of patients and had its own railway, church and farms.
These remarkable photographs capture ward life, staff pantomimes and summer fetes, alongside the long silence that has followed its closure in 1995.