Valiumknights
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Another abandoned hospital located in Scotland,and also undergoing demolition/renovation by the looks of my recent passing by. These photos are from April 2014. Some really interesting buildings here,in very poor condition,mostly occupied by sheep now. Took around an hour to explore the whole site.
Here is some background on the hospital -
When the outbreak of World War II became imminent, the Government commissioned five hospitals to be built across the UK to help cope with casualties. Land was requisitioned to the east of the ruined Killearn House (1816), and a large number of Ministry of Works standard huts erected, based around a prefabricated framework of precast concrete with brick and fenestration infill. The hospital was completed in 1940.
During the war it was managed by both the local authority and the military, being required to deal with injured servicemen, sailors from convoys, and local emergencies, receiving casualties from the Clydebank Blitz of March 13 and 14, 1941. By the end of the war, it had 640 beds and neuro-surgical, orthopaedic and peripheral nerve injury specialist units. The complement is reported to have been reduced to 404 after the war.
In 1948 it joined the National Health Service under the Board of Management for Glasgow Western Hospitals, and developed a renown in the fields of orthopaedics and neurosurgery. Many car crash victims of the 1960s owed their lives to the special skills of the surgeons there.
The hospital's relatively isolated location, some 15 miles north west of Glasgow, meant it was inconvenient for everyone, especially the patients and their families, so much of the hospital's work and facilities were transferred to other units, much going to the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the Southern General Hospital, Govan, with Killearn finally being abandoned in 1972.
In 1979, a proposal to develop the site as a leisure complex failed to attract interest.
The site featured in the closing scenes of Taggart, Episode 8, Season 4,"Dead Giveaway", which first aired on Wednesday, September 7, 1988.
Original flooring
Here is some background on the hospital -
When the outbreak of World War II became imminent, the Government commissioned five hospitals to be built across the UK to help cope with casualties. Land was requisitioned to the east of the ruined Killearn House (1816), and a large number of Ministry of Works standard huts erected, based around a prefabricated framework of precast concrete with brick and fenestration infill. The hospital was completed in 1940.
During the war it was managed by both the local authority and the military, being required to deal with injured servicemen, sailors from convoys, and local emergencies, receiving casualties from the Clydebank Blitz of March 13 and 14, 1941. By the end of the war, it had 640 beds and neuro-surgical, orthopaedic and peripheral nerve injury specialist units. The complement is reported to have been reduced to 404 after the war.
In 1948 it joined the National Health Service under the Board of Management for Glasgow Western Hospitals, and developed a renown in the fields of orthopaedics and neurosurgery. Many car crash victims of the 1960s owed their lives to the special skills of the surgeons there.
The hospital's relatively isolated location, some 15 miles north west of Glasgow, meant it was inconvenient for everyone, especially the patients and their families, so much of the hospital's work and facilities were transferred to other units, much going to the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the Southern General Hospital, Govan, with Killearn finally being abandoned in 1972.
In 1979, a proposal to develop the site as a leisure complex failed to attract interest.
The site featured in the closing scenes of Taggart, Episode 8, Season 4,"Dead Giveaway", which first aired on Wednesday, September 7, 1988.
Original flooring
