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Another location from my Northern Tour! 
Site 3 of 5 and on the second day of being up North.
What can i say about this site?! I was looking at photos of this place before i visited and i must say it was the one i was looking forward to the most. The place is HUGE, probably only got to see about 30% of it, if that!
Agan, visited with Miz Firestorm and Jacques J
Heres the history of the place stolen from Wiki
St Joseph's College was founded in 1880 by Bishop Bernard O'Reilly to be the Seminary serving the North West of England. The college was formally opened in 1883 and was situated in Walthew Park, Upholland, the geographic centre of the Diocese of Liverpool.
The main Chapel at St Joseph'sSt. Joseph’s (usually referred to by its students simply as "Upholland") was one of two main seminaries serving the north of England. Upholland served the northwest, Ushaw College the northeast. For many years, each of these institutions housed both a junior (minor) and a senior (major) seminary. The junior seminaries provided a secondary education in a semi-monastic environment to boys aged 11–18 who wished to pursue the priesthood, while the senior seminaries trained adult candidates (mostly aged between 18 and 24) in philosophy and theology as they prepared for the priesthood. A detailed account of daily life in the junior seminary at Upholland during the 1960s was published in 2012.[1] This account also explores the reasons why the Church's traditional form of seminary training may have predisposed certain priests to molest children, which was one of the key findings of a major investigation conducted on behalf of American bishops into the causes of the sexual abuse crisis within the US Catholic Church.[2]
Although Upholland flourished until the 1960s, the rapidly changing social climate in that decade led to a sharp drop in enrolment. In the early 1970s, the northern bishops decided to consolidate the activities of Upholland and Ushaw; from 1972 all junior seminarians in the north attended Upholland, and from 1975 all senior seminarians attended Ushaw.[3] Even as the sole junior seminary for the north of England, however, Upholland continued to suffer a decline in enrolment, and by the 1980s was no longer a traditional seminary but a "boarding school for boys considering a vocation". In 1986 the total number of students was down to 82, of whom only 54 were Church students, and it was no longer viable to educate them on the premises. From 1987 the remaining students attended St. John Rigby College in nearby Orrell for their schooling, an arrangement that continued until the very last of these students left Upholland in 1992.
I had heard of THE WORLDS LOUDEST ALARM being at this place, and by the look on Jacques's face, (who has been heard it first hand before) i could tell i really didnt wanna hear it, and neither did Jacques! LOL.
As i say in all my reports, no photos have been edited
First stop, was the Red Chapel
IMG_2600 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Confessions.......
IMG_2607 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2623 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2630 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2636 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2653 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2643 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2659 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2669 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2687 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2689 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2694 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2699 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2707 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2725 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2727 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2744 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Sorry, i got abit snap happy in here. I loved it. In and out with been seen or heard, so im a happy chappy to have ticked this one off the list
Hope you enjoyed
DirtyJigsaw
Site 3 of 5 and on the second day of being up North.
What can i say about this site?! I was looking at photos of this place before i visited and i must say it was the one i was looking forward to the most. The place is HUGE, probably only got to see about 30% of it, if that!
Agan, visited with Miz Firestorm and Jacques J
Heres the history of the place stolen from Wiki
St Joseph's College was founded in 1880 by Bishop Bernard O'Reilly to be the Seminary serving the North West of England. The college was formally opened in 1883 and was situated in Walthew Park, Upholland, the geographic centre of the Diocese of Liverpool.
The main Chapel at St Joseph'sSt. Joseph’s (usually referred to by its students simply as "Upholland") was one of two main seminaries serving the north of England. Upholland served the northwest, Ushaw College the northeast. For many years, each of these institutions housed both a junior (minor) and a senior (major) seminary. The junior seminaries provided a secondary education in a semi-monastic environment to boys aged 11–18 who wished to pursue the priesthood, while the senior seminaries trained adult candidates (mostly aged between 18 and 24) in philosophy and theology as they prepared for the priesthood. A detailed account of daily life in the junior seminary at Upholland during the 1960s was published in 2012.[1] This account also explores the reasons why the Church's traditional form of seminary training may have predisposed certain priests to molest children, which was one of the key findings of a major investigation conducted on behalf of American bishops into the causes of the sexual abuse crisis within the US Catholic Church.[2]
Although Upholland flourished until the 1960s, the rapidly changing social climate in that decade led to a sharp drop in enrolment. In the early 1970s, the northern bishops decided to consolidate the activities of Upholland and Ushaw; from 1972 all junior seminarians in the north attended Upholland, and from 1975 all senior seminarians attended Ushaw.[3] Even as the sole junior seminary for the north of England, however, Upholland continued to suffer a decline in enrolment, and by the 1980s was no longer a traditional seminary but a "boarding school for boys considering a vocation". In 1986 the total number of students was down to 82, of whom only 54 were Church students, and it was no longer viable to educate them on the premises. From 1987 the remaining students attended St. John Rigby College in nearby Orrell for their schooling, an arrangement that continued until the very last of these students left Upholland in 1992.
I had heard of THE WORLDS LOUDEST ALARM being at this place, and by the look on Jacques's face, (who has been heard it first hand before) i could tell i really didnt wanna hear it, and neither did Jacques! LOL.
As i say in all my reports, no photos have been edited
First stop, was the Red Chapel
IMG_2600 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Confessions.......
IMG_2607 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2623 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2630 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2636 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2653 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2643 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2659 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2669 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2687 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2689 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2694 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2699 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2707 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2725 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2727 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
IMG_2744 by DirtyJigsaw, on Flickr
Sorry, i got abit snap happy in here. I loved it. In and out with been seen or heard, so im a happy chappy to have ticked this one off the list
Hope you enjoyed
DirtyJigsaw
