lancaster moor asylum

This annex of the nearby Lancaster Moor Hospital was opened in 1916 as a Ladies Villa, intended for lucrative private lady patients who required superior accommodation compared with that available in the main Lancaster Moor Hospital. Lancaster Moor hospital opened in 1816 and closed for mental...

Lancaster Moor Hospital was Lancashire’s first County Lunatic Asylum. The decision to build it was taken in 1809, one year after the permissive County Asylums Act, 1808. Designed by architect Thomas Standen The hospital opened in 1816 as the ‘County Lunatic Asylum for the County Palatine of...

Lancaster Moor Asylum - Lancaster - April 2013 Visited with Clough So... Had a bash at this about 2 years ago with Host, only to be rumbled by two pleasant security guards after minutes in the grounds. Fair play. Had a nosy round at the new year in the early hours, no evident way in...

Seeing as The Moor has been enjoying flavour of the month due to redevelopment I think its time to dig these photos up from various trips here that I kept quiet on over the years. Probably about 6 trips in total, between 2008 and 2011, day and night, having fun with the PIRs :D Many episodes of...

Yes.. its an asylum... my favourite type of explore.... as Im sure some of you know this. I first visited this place about 3 years back and the visit was cut short when all hell seemed to break loose.. but I always wanted a re-visit. With the recent comments on the Lancaster Development...

Im sure you are all aware of the History behind this Beaut! Now before I start this was not a full explore, I have been trying to get in here without causing damage to myself and the building for many and I mean MANY years (i am a little clumsy). Anyhoo enough of me rambling, thought is give...