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Interior -view of shopping mall from S
SC 776406
Description Interior -view of shopping mall from S
Date 17/11/1993
Catalogue Number SC 776406
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 17834
Scope and Content Shopping Mall, Hartwood Hospital, Shotts, North Lanarkshire (now closed and mainly demolished) This elegant shopping mall on the ground floor of the main hospital block was constructed probably in the mid-20th century. It has an unusual barrel-vaulted ceiling, and individual wooden-fronted shop units arranged around the sides of a rectangular tiled courtyard with a circular seating unit. The shopping mall provided the facilities of shops, café and hairdressing salon for both patients and staff. The hospital was a self-contained community where patients lived and worked, went to church on Sundays and were entertained to musical evenings and amateur dramatics. They could take part in indoor sports such billiards, and enjoy outdoor pursuits such as golf, bowling, curling, tennis and cricket. Many male patients worked in the gardens or on the home farm, growing vegetables and looking after animals. Some were employed as tailors, shoemakers, joiners and bakers while female patients worked in the kitchens, in the laundry or doing general housework on the wards. Many patients spent their entire lives in the hospital, and when they died were buried in the hospital's graveyard. Hartwood Hospital, a large Baronial-style building with imposing twin towers, was designed by the architect, John L Murray of Biggar (d.1909), and occupied one of the largest hospital sites in Scotland. It was built as the District Asylum for Lanark and opened in 1895 with accommodation for 500 lunatic patients. Between 1898 and 1916 additions included two large ward blocks, each linked to the rear of the main building by a covered corridor, a sanatorium for the isolation of patients suffering from tuberculosis, and a new admission hospital. In 1931 a new nurses' home, designed by the architect, James Lochhead (1870-1942), opened to the south of the complex, and in c.1935, a new site was developed at nearby Hartwood Hill in response to the growing need for accommodation for mentally handicapped adults. The hospital is now closed and mainly demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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