Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. View of bowling green and pavilion from North-West. Digital image of B/4636
SC 749413
Description Glasgow, Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital. View of bowling green and pavilion from North-West. Digital image of B/4636
Date 28/5/1987
Catalogue Number SC 749413
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 4636
Scope and Content Bowling green and pavilion from north-west, Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, Glasgow Gartloch Hospital was opened in 1896 on the east side of Glasgow as the City's District Asylum for 'pauper lunatics'. Designed by Thomson & Sandilands, this vast, red sandstone institution, in Scots Baronial style, was built to ease overcrowding in Glasgow's Royal Asylum. Gartloch was closed in 1996. This shows the bowling green and pavilion, part of the recreational facilities available to patients. Such activities were known to be beneficial in the treatment of mental illness but Gartloch was one of a new breed of asylums with its self-contained hospital block and villa accommodation for patients. Gartloch consisted of a range of buildings dominated by its impressive three-storeyed administrative block with ornate towers flanking the entrance. Patients were housed in four villas linked by corridors, a new type of asylum accommodation favoured at the end of the 19th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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