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Scotland / Re: Scotland's Historic Hospitals
« on: Tuesday 01 March 11 09:29 GMT (UK) »Thanks for that great link. Brilliant pictures, some of buildings that no longer exist.
On page 47 is picture of Pinel Lodge, Murthly - I lived in a flat for some years there after the building was converted in 1989. The grass area in front had been a croquet lawn for patients & staff. The site is now called Druid's Park [there was a stone circle in the grounds of the main house]; the main building was demolished apart from one facade, some buildings converted & many 'executive' houses have since built.
Pinel Lodge was built in 1894 [according to a metal downpipe on our flat!!] I have a postcard showing the main hospital building in the late 1910s when it was used as a military psychiatric hospital. Local people talked about it always being a peaceful place when still used as a hospital [I believe the site was sold by the Health Authority to a developer in about 1980].
I found it by chance, I was Googling for info on the Northern Infirmary in Inverness and found that.
There are so many of these old buildings that have become flats, I've found quite a few places where my ancestors have lived are now blocks of flats