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Steps to nowhere
The hospital was designed by John Lamb Murray to accommodate 500 patients and opened as the Lanark District Asylum, The complex included gardens, a farm, a power-plant, a reservoir, a railway-line and a cemetery, the nursing complex was later added in 1931
After the introduction of the “Care In The Community” act in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1988.
There is also a series of tunnels that run under the hospital & old now demolished nursing complex, these are no longer assessable
Steps to nowhere
The hospital was designed by John Lamb Murray to accommodate 500 patients and opened as the Lanark District Asylum, The complex included gardens, a farm, a power-plant, a reservoir, a railway-line and a cemetery, the nursing complex was later added in 1931
After the introduction of the “Care In The Community” act in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1988.
There is also a series of tunnels that run under the hospital & old now demolished nursing complex, these are no longer assessable