In 1888 the estate of Glack, in Daviot parish, was purchased with 283 acres of land and two mansion houses and a country branch of the asylum was set up. On my first visit to Hartwood I was struck by the imposing nature of the clock towers rising above the remainder of the building. Among them, some former psychiatric hospitals are shrouded in controversy over patient mistreatment. In 1806 Parliament granted 2,000 from confiscated estates following the Jacobite Rising of 1745. 13 Abandoned Mansions With Crazy Stories Behind Them - House Beautiful 58K subscribers We explore an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Scotland, the earliest surviving asylum there is here. The new department contained wards for pauper lunatics and comprised three parts; a main wing of three stories with twelve dormitories and their accompanying workrooms, day-rooms, washing and bathrooms and six sick rooms, a separate single storey building for noisy patients of two large and six small dormitories and the kitchen and laundry. A playground latterly for urbexers there are many photographs of the derelict buildings to be found on the net. The new villas planned as a colony were opened in 1922, built to the designs ofJames Miller. The increasing number of patients lead to the establishment of Elmhill House in 1862 following the acquisition of the adjoining estate. It was established by Dr Fairless for the middle classes, and designed to accommodate between 100 and 120 patients. [Sources:RCAHMS, National Monuments Record of Scotland, drawings collection.]. Quite a creepy shot but the best photos had to be from the morgue. A& W. Reids extensions comprised a north and south wing each of two storeys and an extension of three storeys to the rear at the centre of the building. BILBOHALL HOSPITAL Elgin Pauper Lunatic Asylum was founded by the managers of Grays Hospital c.1835 and was the earliest asylum built specifically for paupers in Scotland and indeed, the only pauper lunatic asylum built in Scotland before the Lunacy Act of 1857.
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