Lanark District Asylum, Scotland
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Hartwood Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the village of Hartwood near the town of Shotts in Scotland.
The hospital was designed by John Lamb Murray to accommodate 500 patients and opened as the Lanark District Asylum in 1895.[1][2]: 38 The complex included staff-houses, gardens, a farm, a power-plant, a reservoir, a railway-line and a cemetery.[2]: 32 Two large separate blocks were added in 1898, a tuberculosis sanatorium was completed in 1906 and a nurses' home was opened in 1931.[1]
The Scottish Union of Mental Patients was set up by mental patients at Hartwood Hospital in July 1971.[2]: 38 At that time some 27 patients signed a petition to "redress of grievances and better conditions" at the hospital.[2]: 38 After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1998.[1]
How is the roof already gone when it closed in the nineties?