Bangour Village For Sale

My local asylum back on the market

http://www.youtube:(.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=mxS6cuooGY4

Sad - hence the miserable Radiohead track (before anyone complains!)

TheSquashedfrogg said:

Have a friend in anonymous who I'll ask help me shut their damn site down!

bangourvillage.com = tossers

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Why?

escortmad79 said:

Why?

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Because in no time at all my local derelict asylum will be another Tesco town or similar

I know it's "the way of the world" and "money talks" etc but it's still sad and annoys me..

There is absolutely no way Bangour will be turned into Tesco or anything else, it will become housing just like it would have been when Persimmon had the site.

I'm champing at the bit for the place to be converted, would love a flat in the nurses quarters as does at least one other explorer!

Rather it was converted to housing instead of continuing to deteriorate, burnt out or further plundered by pikeys!

escortmad79 said:

There is absolutely no way Bangour will be turned into Tesco or anything else, it will become housing just like it would have been when Persimmon had the site.

I'm champing at the bit for the place to be converted, would love a flat in the nurses quarters as does at least one other explorer!

Rather it was converted to housing instead of continuing to deteriorate, burnt out or further plundered by pikeys!

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Well maybe not a tesco town but just sad that it'll end up another housing development. Just what Livingston needs? I'm conscious the place is worth a fortune to the council but it still make me sad that it'll be totally unrecognisable in a few years time to place i've grown up next to. Whilst some buildings are listed the whole landscape will change completely.

The place is steeped in history and in an ideal world should remain a standing testament to our recent history. Think of New Lanark...

Enjoy your new flat dude.

Most of the listed buildings at Bangour are still in a good way, it's better they're converted now than developers having an excuse to demolish them later.

lost said:

Most of the listed buildings at Bangour are still in a good way, it's better they're converted now than developers having an excuse to demolish them later.

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True but I thought this was Derelict Places? Not New, Swanky development.co.uk?

Being a realist I understand what's happening, it's just that I find it sad that another piece of our recent history will vanish forever...

IMHO

TheSquashedfrogg said:

True but I thought this was Derelict Places? Not New, Swanky development.co.uk?

Being a realist I understand what's happening, it's just that I find it sad that another piece of our recent history will vanish forever...

IMHO

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Our military, industrial and historical heritage is fast disappearing under the pressure of regeneration, the need for new housing, and often through simple neglect. Our aim is to document these places before they disappear entirely, taking nothing but photos, and leaving nothing but footprints.

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krela said:

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Yes, agree but the council aren't bothered about creating additional housing, only lining their pockets. If they were serious about additional, much needed housing, they'd build them!

Fair enough though, if you're happy for another site to disappear..

Over 100 years of history gone and replaced by a nice block of flats...

Happy days

lost said:

Most of the listed buildings at Bangour are still in a good way, it's better they're converted now than developers having an excuse to demolish them later.

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Incorrect, when were you there last?

TheSquashedfrogg said:

True but I thought this was Derelict Places? Not New, Swanky development.co.uk?

Being a realist I understand what's happening, it's just that I find it sad that another piece of our recent history will vanish forever...

IMHO

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The listed buildings will remain, nurses quarters, main hospital & some of the villas will be converted into flats, as long as the other new buildings built on site are built sympathetically to their surroundings then I have no problem with that.

However, the longer they remain empty & derelict the greater the risk that they will be destroyed, the same way so many other asylums have gone.

I'd rather they were converted & remained in some existance rather than be lost altogether.

Please stop making judgements on the membership of this forum and grind your axe elsewhere. If you're that bothered do something positive about it. Bitching on an online forum and threatening to DDoS the developers website won't achieve anything at all.

Probably only the church and hall will be kept with the rest of the site flattened by houses, when it eventually comes.

Cuban B. said:

Probably only the church and hall will be kept with the rest of the site flattened by houses, when it eventually comes.

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Thank you my friend.

As much as I hate to see the place destroyed by pikies and neglect, the sad fact is that the whole place (apart from the church and hall and possibly the nurses accommodation will be flattened) The sprawling acres of land will be filled by modern development and the last 100 years wiped off the face of our earth.

krela said:

Please stop making judgements on the membership of this forum and grind your axe elsewhere. If you're that bothered do something positive about it. Bitching on an online forum and threatening to DDoS the developers website won't achieve anything at all.

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I only judge those who judge me? I grind no axe with fellow explorers but do question those who question me.

What can I do about it? What an empty question... I can do nothing, as you are well aware.

I can only speak of my hurt that an institution which housed patients of varying mental disabilities and patients from the 1st and 2nd world wars is soon to be raised to the ground.

Early responses to my post confirmed that they'd rather it be tuned into residential accommodation than remain derelict. I merely questioned that this forum and website championed derelict exploration and not modern residential exploration.

Future generations of our kind will never get to experience what we do if this continues.

No one explores peoples homes except thieves.

As for DDos, surely the modern world needs some form of defence?

I'd say the place has still got about five more years left before it really starts to become ruinous like Cherry Knowle or Whittingham. Despite the heating being kept on in the hall (it's still live) the plaster continues to fall from its ceiling.

I thought some of the older villas were listed, it would be a shame to see those wiped off the earth for rabbit hutches and dolls houses.