Hartwood Hospital
Hartwood Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the village of Hartwood near the town of Shotts in Scotland.
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| Geography | |
| Location | Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 55.8099°N 3.8485°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | Psychiatric |
| History | |
| Opened | 1895 |
| Closed | 1998 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
History
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]
Its first medical superintendent was Dr Campbell Clark.[3]
Its sister facility, the Hartwoodhill Hospital, which was designed by James Lochhead as a 'mental deficiency' hospital, was erected on the east side of Hartwood Road in 1935.[2]:32 However during the Second World War psychiatric patients from Bangour Village Hospital were evacuated there.[2]:33
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]
Although briefly used by Lanarkshire Television as a film studio, the Hartwood Hospital buildings subsequently fell into disuse.[1] There were major fires in 2004 and 2016 leaving the building substantially damaged.[1] Hartwoodhill Hospital, the sister facility, subsequently closed as well in February 2011.[4]
In February 2020 it was reported that portions of Matt Reeves's The Batman were being filmed at the location, with the site dressed as Gotham Orphanage.[5]
References
- "Hartwood Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- Gallacher, Mark. "From mental patient to service user: deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of the Mental Health Service User Movement in Scotland, 1971-2006" (PDF). theses.gla.ac.uk/. Glasgow University. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- "Obituary: Archibald Campbell Clark, MD, F.F.P.S.G." BMJ. 14 December 1901. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- "Minutes of meeting" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Health and Care Partnership. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
- Craig Williams (22 February 2020). "Former psychiatric hospital near Glasgow turned into 'Gotham Orphanage' for The Batman filming". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 February 2020.