Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. View from North-West.
C 16762 CN
Description Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. View from North-West.
Date 30/6/1994
Catalogue Number C 16762 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 749416
Scope and Content Main administrative block, Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, Glasgow, from north-west Gartloch Hospital, on the eastern edge of Glasgow, was opened in 1896 as the city's District Asylum for 'pauper lunatics'. It was built as a result of the 1857 Lunatics (Scotland) Act which held District Lunacy Boards responsible for the care and treatment of the mentally ill in their area. Gartloch was closed in 1996. This shows the main administrative block of this vast, red sandstone institution designed by architects, Thomson & Sandilands in Scots Baronial style. The two ornate towers rising either side of the entrance ensured that Gartloch was visible for miles around. During World War II (1939-45), Gartloch became an Emergency Medical Scheme Hospital. Its psychiatric patients were moved to other hospitals and several hutted annexes were built within the grounds. When its patients returned, these became a 160-bed medical unit and a nurses' training school. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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