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Robroyston hospital isnt standing anymore, and the land was used for a housing development. The Asda in Robroyston - beside the M80- is alongside the former site of the hospital. IIRC the fencing that divides the Asda from the housing beside it is from the original hospital. Robroyston was AFAIR a h...

Thistle Manager John Lambie is a famous "doo man" (pigeon fancier) so that perhaps explains why there are a few in the vicinity of Firhill!

Stoneyetts Hospital in Moodiesburn, just outside Glasgow was another. I visited the site the other week while dog walking, and the buildings are no longer standing, but there is still a fairly long tree-lined avenue (complete with street lamps that are no longer working) leading to the site. The hos...

I also have heard of there being a direct train route for wounded WW1 soldiers in Glasgow. The difference is that I heard it was Stobhill Hospital, which does have a (now disused) rail line beside it. This line would have connected to the Glasgow/Edinburgh line at Springburn. Some of this disused li...