Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566786
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566786
Bangour Village Hospital, 1896-1906, Hippolyte J Blanc
Originally a lunatic asylum for the City of Edinburgh, on the pioneering German-inspired vision of civilised treatment for the mentally ill, on the hilly and beautiful estate of the Hamiltons of Bangour, at one time with its own railway station and shop. During the First World War, injured servicemen could be shipped direct here from the Channel ports. During the 1930s, Bangour became a tuberculosis sanatorium, fresh air and food from its own home farm being important to recuperation.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
