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My Kitten wrote:http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1497246.0.0.php
A FORMER Glasgow mortuary is be given a new lease of life as a pub.
But drinkers are being promised the atmosphere will be far from dead when the ex-hospital facility is transformed into a bar and restaurant.
Entrepreneur Jay Shields hopes to cash in on the site's spooky past by reviving the building later this year.
The morgue was part of the old Gartloch Hospital, near Easterhouse, and stored the corpses of patients who died on the psychiatric wards.
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The hospital, which once cared for more than 550 patients, closed in 1996 and the land is being turned into a housing development, called Gartloch Village, with more than 600 homes surrounding Bishop Loch.
Work on the bar-restaurant, in the middle of the site, is scheduled to start in August, if councillors renew planning permission for the venture.
Mr Shields, who also runs a CCTV security firm, said: "We have been wanting to do this for a number of years, so I guess you could say we have resurrected the idea.
"The morgue had two fridges in it and stored the bodies of patients who died suddenly.
"I was attracted to the building because of its unusual history. I don't think it will put people off.
"We are looking to come up with a name to exploit its past, and are open to suggestions."
A conservatory will be added to the back of the old morgue, under plans submitted to Glasgow City Council.
The bar-restaurant aims to open by Christmas.
Councillors originally granted permission for the venture in 2001, but the project was put on hold until the first houses were completed.
The psychiatric hospital opened its doors in 1896 after the City of Glasgow bought the Gartloch Estate for £8600. Patients were housed in four villas linked by corridors.
It was used as an asylum for the city's poor and also acted as a tuberculosis sanitorium during the early 1900s.
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