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fatweegee wrote:I was born in the Suffering, and spent my formative years living within a few hundred yards (Aboukir Street and Langlands Road) until I left home at 21. My Mum even worked in the kitchens for a while in the late '70's. It has alway (in recent memory) alway been a real mish mash of buildings - I suppose since the Maternity and Neurosurgery units were built in the 60's - 70's. Anyway the oldest parts of the building, rightly pointed out as the clock tower, started out life as the Govan Combination Poorhouse and opened in 1872, later known as Merryflatts Poorhouse and now part of the Sufferin. QuotingGeorge Rountrees' "Bygone Govan" - 'To the south, near Langlands Drive, there was a separate building designated as an asylum, while another detached building to the north was the actual hospita. The original main entrance to the Southern General in Govan Road was through a narrow stone arch suitable for the horse-drawn vehicles of early times, but enlargement of the medical facilities from the 1960's rendered it impractical and a new, much wider entrance was opened to the west after which the old one was sealed off' - I think this original gate or remnants of it can still be seen with the number 1301 on the gate post.
Guacho wrote:Less than a year to completion. Keys hand over end of January next year.
The old poor law hospital (latterly the psychiatric wards) was recently demolished with construction of the education centre and new admin block underway. Rumours that the (listed) clock tower building may also be demolished
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