7-516: Gartloch Hospital was a mental health facility located on Gartloch Road near the village of Gartcosh , Scotland. It opened in 1896 and was officially closed in 1996. It was managed by NHS Greater Glasgow . In January 1889 the City of Glasgow acquired the Gartloch Estate for the purpose of building a hospital. A foundation stone for the hospital, which was designed by Thomson and Sandilands,
14-529: Is a residential village in Glasgow , Scotland. Outwith the city's urban area (the closest contiguous district being Easterhouse ), it is very close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire , south of Garnkirk and west of Gartcosh . To the south is Bishop Loch, a nature reserve and the body of water referred to in the village name, which forms part of the Seven Lochs Wetland Park . Much of
21-574: The Glasgow urban area at Garthamlock next to Junction 10 of the M8 motorway , and is around the same distance in the opposite direction from Junction 2A of the M73 motorway and Gartcosh railway station . The etymology of the name is "loch enclosure". Several old documents show Gartloch with various spellings including on maps by Timothy Pont , Charles Ross, and William Roy . Between 1897 and 1921, Garnkirk
28-763: The hospital was used in the BBC television series Takin' Over the Asylum starring David Tennant and Ken Stott where its distinctive French Renaissance style architecture served as the exterior of the fictional St. Jude's Hospital. In 2005 a film Gartloch Hospital was released which gave an account of the history of the hospital. It was the winner of the Best Factual Film at the Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival, in 2007. Gartloch Gartloch ( / ɡ ɑːr t ˈ l ɒ x / )
35-469: The new village was created by the renovation of several of the buildings that made up Gartloch Hospital (also known as Gartloch Asylum) which opened in 1896 and closed in 1996. New houses have also been built in the surrounding area. Gartloch is within driving distance – about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles or 2.5 kilometres – from the Glasgow Fort cinema and retail park complex on the periphery of
42-634: Was an inmate at the hospital at the time he joined the Scottish Union of Mental Patients in the early 1970s. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1996. Many of the surrounding buildings were subsequently converted into homes or demolished to create Gartloch Village but the Category A- listed administration building remains intact but derelict. In 1993,
49-884: Was laid in November 1892. It accepted its first patients in 1896 and was officially opened as the Gartloch District Asylum in June 1897. A nurses' home was completed in June 1900 and a tuberculosis sanatorium opened in December 1902. Bed capacity reached a peak of 830 in 1904. It served as an emergency hospital using hutted accommodation during the Second World War and joined the National Health Service in 1948. Robin Farquharson
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