Merchiston Hospital

Part of a late summer road trip with a JFR420 (Flickr), ended up here very early in the morning in the heavy rain, so no externals, which is probably a good thing, as they are not very pretty!

Merchiston Hospital Administrative/Biographical History

Broadfield Hospital was opened in 1925 and catered for mentally deficient men. Broadstone House was purchased by Paisley Burgh in 1929 to accommodate mentally deficient females and juveniles. Broadfield and Broadstone were administered as a single hospital. In 1946, Broadfield was sold to the Port Glasgow Town Council, who cleared the site. Paisley Burgh bought Merchiston House as a replacement and patients were moved there in 1948. This facility was known as Broadfield Hospital, Merchiston Unit. In 1958 two new wings were added providing an extra 70 beds. In 1979 Merchiston was redeveloped with four 30-bedded units built to a modern bungalow design. The hospital closed in 2007-2008


Site Map, Its a fairly large complex, not all the buildings were accessible, but the generally they were all trashed and raided by the metal thieves.


The first building be entered luckily enough contained the Padded Rooms






The next stop was the main building complex, it was partially used as a Doctors surgery with many small offices off the long corridors, sadly all trashed and not much worth taking photo of


The main hall contained a small stage and pool tables, but it was extremely dark in here!


Also found the Dentists chair which was a suprise!





Physiotherapy Gym Hall


The Laundry Deptartment





The last stop for us had to be the Chapel and Morgue, sadly not much was left now

East Fortune Hospital

After a failure at a couple locations, headed here as a last resort to see what this former hospital near Edinburgh held in store...

East Fortune began life in 1915 as part of a WW1 airbase to defeat incoming German Zepplins.  In 1922 several buildings and an area of land were used to create East Fortune Hospital. This served as a tuberculosis sanatorium for the south east region of Scotland until the onset of World War II. The airfield was then brought back into service as RAF East Fortune, initially a training airfield, and the hospital patients were transferred to Bangour Hospital in West Lothian. The hospital re-opened after the war, but by 1956, as the number of tuberculosis patients began to fall, the hospital changed its function to house the mentally handicapped. In 1997, the hospital closed down, and its patients were transferred to Roodlands Hospital in Haddington.


East Fortune Hospital - The main building complex


The Kitchen still has quite a few remaining features too heavy for the pikeys too lift


The Cookers




No idea what this is!


Pressure Cooker


Dietary blackboard


Little bit of respect please...


Cool hospital bed, not many of these kicking about derelict sites


Massive dishwasher, defo need this for my home!


This room must of had at least a hundred mattresses!


The Boiler-house chimney


The Boiler Room (these pics are courtesy of JFR420 (on Flickr) cause am too much of a bloater to fit through the door!


The Boiler-house valves and pipes


The Boilers are massive



The hospital complex is made up of so many smaller un-linked wards and outbuildings, mostly sealed up though.







The heavens open right after this shot and we took refuge in the old ambulance workshop



Inside contained the famous wheelchair

Hartwood Nurses Home - Oct 2012

In the early hours on a very wet, cold and miserable day myself and 2 friends found our way inside this impressive building.  It was still too dark to actually see with out torches, so effectively had to sit and wait for the beginnings of sunlight too appear.

The Category C listed Hartwood Hospital Nurses Home was designed by Glasgow Architect James Lochhead in 1926. It was designed to blend in with the 1890's Baronial style Hartwood Mental Hospital, located on the not far from this site.  Originally built as Nurses Accommodation for the Hartwood Nursing staff, it was finally opened in 1931.

In 1974, the Scottish Western Region's Hartwood School of Nursing was based here and trained the vast majority of nurses, who then initially practiced in the area.

It was latterly home to the Bell College of Technology School of Nursing and Midwifery. The building was officially vacated in 1996.

After hiding out on the 4th floor, this was our first view as the sun began to come up




A couple of the top floor corridors, they are massively long




Typical bedroom of the nurses


The stairs are some of the most impressive I've seen!




Ground Floor Corridor, this area was pretty much completely trashed, awesome!


I think this is one of the many classrooms


Another awesome set of stairs with the added bonus of dereliction!


I think this was once the Lounge / Sitting Area to the front of the building


The former Library


Main hall complete with mini stage


Couple shots of the front elevation, its was still heaving down with rain so this was the best I could do.


The impressive towers in the background.




The main stairs, epic in my eyes


My final shot before we left.


This building is massive in size, if only the weather was better and wasn't so tired after being up for over 30 hours I would have take more. We did head to the main building complex but a run in with a couple pikey scum then the security guard we were forced to make a retreat.