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This is incredible. Your IR stuff is some of the best I've seen. I love the contrast of the very square angles of the building versus the movement in the sky. Incredible!

I love this picture. It is so creepy.

THAT BUILDING IS SUPER STUNNING!

Great shot, I just love the colours in this and the building is gorgeous.

Jebus Motts, you really have the IR thing down now, don't you? Dr Sketch bows to the master...

What a beautiful picture Motts! It's cool the way nature is taking over on the roof...

This is so beautiful, I love the hues.

Very swell. :-)

How beautiful is this building! I wonder what the architectural style is -- Queen Anne's plus Moorish? How exquisite.

Gorgeous...simply gorgeous.

wallpaper...... wallpaper....wallpaper...
incredible!!

Motts please make this a wallpaper....you can say it is our christmas gift :-)

i would like to live in that building. once i redid it though...

*eyes go big* i want to die in that building

Absolutely incredible. I know it's been said before, but this looks like a scene from a Hammer film in high def!

Wow. I'd love to have the front of my house look like this. Certainly not the "cookie-cutter" house..:-). Great shot, and perfect color.

I have to say the pic is romanticly creepy

wow this picture looks like something straight out of a horror movie..great shot Motts<3

WOW stunning picture! Amazing

I love the way you timed the picture-with the clouds racing and the building standing still.

thanks

Cool Hospital

its scary like Dr P Swinglehurst he is a Consultant Psychiatrist Medical Directorate

wooooo scary

Gorgeous shot. I too like the solid building standing tall before the speeding sky.

Wow just amazing! The colors are beyond beatuiful.

I see a wallpaper request...by minktail and rotten... sounds like a AWESOME idea..

I like the way you downplayed the fence, the signs seem to be floating in air....great job, Motts

Dark and brooding, excellent shot :)

Has anyone seen the movie "Boo" well this is what reminds me of!! CREEP!!

that building looks pretty well spooky and kinda got the haunted look to it as well

bravo - beautiful sky, beautiful building.

Words dont describe the impression this picture leaves on me....espeshily when im listening to bohemian rhapsody at the same time.

I removed the asbestos from this place and it was spooky!!!

just like a movie..

Hmm ... that looks like a job 4 the ghostbusters. the sky on this looks awsome.....did u say all this was in england?? dead spooky. Castle near my home is said to be haunted along with warwick castle, never been ti either at night though im too chicken.

My gran worked at Whittingham as a senior nurse for over fourty years and my grandad worked in the giant furnace rooms.
I remember going as a child to work at summer fairs and being with the patients and when I asked my gran what each had done, she would say "better not to know".
My dad as a child was taken to the cinema in Longridge with school and the children would be locked into the cinema with Whittingham patients. Hands would sneak over the childrens' shoulders and pinch their sweets.
I have lots more tales from Whittingham and am thinking of writing a book!

First thought I had was of Petra

I worked at whittingham between 1986 and 1988 on nights. I am a RMN (registered mental nurse) what we all should remember is that this place holds many memories and it was the home to many people. We must respect that at all times. I appreciate all the time and effort that has gone into putting all these great photos on the website. It is very nostalgic for me to see the old place again before its demise. For anyone who is inclined to stigmatise the mentally ill, and relate to them as if they are a social underclass, it is worth knowing that 1 in 4 of the population will suffer from a mental illness at some time in their lives. None of us are immune. Please remember this fact. thank you.

I want this ediface to be my home. I have needed a place to haunt after my demise. This is it.

Can anyone tell where the records have been sent regarding 1950's and 1960' treatments which occurred please.

This is amazing Motts, I would have never even gotton this close to a place that looks like this.

what a great picture! so menacing/brooding!

Like a haunted house on Halloween! This building looms large!

very movie-like

Alfred Hitchcock (or should I say Alfred Hinchcliff)

(I never said I was not mental)

I love this shot. I am wondering how you were able to get IR in color? My IR shots out of my Hoya r72 are orange and can be tinted other colors but I have not gotten any like this. Nice job!

i worked and trained at Whittingham so did my Mum this was always a magnificent building and scary referred to as THE FRONT nobody wanted calling to the front

That really looks imposing.

is ther any security as i would like to go and see it

One of my many favourites.

yes theres security, i went to the point where motts took this picture (you can drive up) and was shortly joined by a security guard who kindly asked me to leave :)

Omg if u think its scary on here u should see in in person, i went yesterday and walked all around it at 11o'clock at night its so scary there was about 25 of us looking for away to get in, this building was were they kept all the really bad people and only 2 nurses would go in at a time its so scary .

My mum used to take her with me to this building to collect her wages (a nurse) etc, around the late 60s early 70s. Like most of Whittingham at the time it was in fabulous condition. Not scary at all to a 5 year old - just time and decay as well as Whittinghams stigma of the mentally ill has turned it into some sort of creep show. Its a shame that the buildings have gone into such a state - I remember most of Whittingham in its prime.

just brings back memories

I saw a similar building on a book I once read. This reminds me of that book, which was about a teen girl being forced b y her father into an asylum out of fear she would end up like her mother. It makes me shiver to think that is what new patients saw....It seems so unwelcoming and cold.

i went there last night its creepy but you get the hang of it after a while and some crazy things do happen like see wierd things and hear mad shit i recomend people to go

This shot makes me hear a theremin in my head! Spooky pic!
Very cool!