PEOPLE can find out about life at the Whittingham Asylum at a special exhibition on Saturday.
Items on show, loaned from Lancashire Archives and The Museum of Lancashire, range from patient records (including photographs and admission forms), books containing details of staff wages, menus of the food fed to patients, farm livestock books and annual reports.
They will be displayed at The Food for Thought family event, part of the Whittingham Lives heritage project. takes place at the Whittingham and Goosnargh Social Club from noon to 4pm.
The project aims to research, explore, celebrate and review the culture and legacy of the asylum, which was open from 1873 to 1995. The event forms part of a series of programmes exploring the asylum's 150-year history. It had 4,000 patients and staff at its height.
Whittingham Asylum was built on farmland purchased in 1869 and the associated farm, known as Got Field, was important in producing food for the residents of the institution.
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