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Old Photograph Nurses Gartloch Hospital Gartcosh Scotland
Old photograph of nurses at Gartloch Hospital in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village of Gartcosh lies a few miles east of Glasgow, and about a mile northwest of the town of Coatbridge. In 1889 Gartloch Estate was bought by the City of Glasgow for nearly £8,600 for the Glasgow District Lunacy Board to build an asylum for the poor people of the city. In 1896 the first patients were admitted. By 1899 the average number of patients resident in the asylum during the year was 465 and comprised 236 males and 229 females. In 1902 a tuberculosis sanitorium was opened. It closed after World War II. During the War, Gartloch was transformed into an Emergency Medical Services hospital. Psychiatric patients were transferred to other hospitals and a number of temporary wards built. In 1994, it was used in the BBC television series Takin' Over the Asylum starting David Tennant and Ken Stott where its distinctive French Renaissance style architecture served as the exterior of the fictional St. Jude's Hospital. The hospital officially closed in 1996 with patients and staff relocated across Glasgow. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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