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ramor69 wrote:Looking for some comfirmation, (or otherwise), on this as I think that VM has got
the location of where the following photograph looking towards Merryflats is wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/3dwfu8.
Dugald wrote:HollowHorn, in your very good 1968 pictures of Linthouse around the Southern General Hospital, I gather the first one is looking north while the second one is looking south... is this correct? Am I also correct in saying that neither of your pictures shows Moss Rd., and the main thoroughfare in each picture is Govan Rd.? I note too in your pictures, that the entrance to the hospital does not show the arched entrance as was visible in Ramor's.
Fire rages at derelict hospital
More than 30 firefighters have been called to tackle a "large scale" fire at a derelict hospital in East Dunbartonshire. The blaze at Lennox Castle Hospital in Lennoxtown occurred before 1800 BST on Monday and 13 appliances, including one high-reach unit, are at the scene.There are thought to be about 35 firefighters at the scene. Lennox Castle Hospital, which catered for people with learning disabilities, opened in 1936 and closed in 2002. Strathclyde Fire and Rescue said a fire investigation unit is currently at the burning building.
mr moto wrote:i was born in the wonderfully named rottenrow maternity hospital it sound,s like something from a dickens novel .
leverngirl wrote:what about the old Mearnskirk Hhospital? I was a patient there as a wee girl from 1948 till 1951 when a lot of it was a TB hospital. It was all set out in pavilions, (now housing) and we wore a "uniform" of white shorts and shirts. Parents were allowed to visit on a Sunday for an hour and siblings under a certain age not at all (I didn't see my sister for 3 years) . I was back there again in 1958 aged 13 and the uniform and parent rules were still pretty much the same. Our beds were pulled out on to the verandahs after lunch that we might have fresh air, and we had school in the forenoons. There was even a Mearnskirk song, most of which I can still remember!
Despite the somewhat draconian rules, I have no unhappy memories whatsoever of Mearnskirk. Would be interesting to hear of others' experiences.
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