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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Old Photograph Turbine Steamer Queen Alexandra Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of the turbine steamer Queen Alexandra arriving at the pier in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. TS Queen Alexandra was built in 1912 by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton for Turbine Steamers Ltd, to replace a previous Queen Alexandra of 1902, which had been extensively damaged by fire. The new Queen was designed for the long distance cruises. Her first public sailing was on 23 May 1912 to Campbeltown. Fast and manoeuvrable, she soon became a popular boat. In 1935, her owners Turbine Steamers Ltd were sold to David MacBrayne Ltd and the turbine steamers King George V and Queen Alexandra transferred to the Western Isles. Queen Alexandra went for refit at Lamont's shipyard, where she was transformed. This was all in preparation for her new role on the " Royal Route ". Her similarity to Cunard's Queen Mary earned her the nickname " MacBrayne's little Cunarder ". Withdrawn after 48 years of sterling service in September 1958, she was towed to Smith & Houston's shipyard in Port Glasgow on the 23 December 1958 and was scrapped.



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Old Photograph Family Rothesay Scotland

Old photographs of a family in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Tram Barloan Dumbarton Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram in Barloan, Dumbarton, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Bagpiper Lament 51st Highland Division War Memorial Remembrance Service Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a lone Piper playing Flowers of the Forest a Lament at the 51st Highland Division Remembrance Service at the War Memorial in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Scotland.

They were young, as we are young,
They served, giving freely of themselves.
To them, we pledge, amid the winds of time,
To carry their torch and never forget.
We will remember them.

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