Old Photograph Asylum Hartwood Scotland

Old photograph of the Asylum in Hartwood near Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The remains of Hartwood Hospital, a 19th century psychiatric hospital with imposing twin clock towers, are the main feature of the village. The original hospital was overseen by Dr Archibald Campbell Clark, the medical superintendent, and was involved with the inception of modern psychiatric therapies such as occupational therapy, ECT and industrial involvement. In the hospital style of the time, Hartwood was entirely self-sustaining, with its own farm, gardens, reservoir, graveyard and staff houses. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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