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Howard Mitchell. Posted 13 Aug 2002.
I am completing a book, film and exhibition about the above hospital, which closed recently. I have failed to come up with any archive film at all from the institution, apart from video over the last 20 years. I wonder if anyone has any knowledge of any? The place was officially opened in 1936, was one of the largest in Europe for people with learning disability at one time, and for 30 years also contained a maternity unit where manywomen from Glasgow went to have their children. It is situated near Lennoxtown, 12 miles north of the city. | | |
|  | A Watson from J Wheatly College. Posted 15 Jan 2003.
I was born in lennox castle hopital on14/9/53 as was my brother in-law who was born the following month. My mother was at a wedding near the hospital when she went into labour thats why i was born there, my family lived just off the Cowcaddens if you know it.
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| | David Appleman from cumbernauld. Posted 10 Mar 2004.
I'm glad this hospital and others like it are now closed. Long live freedom.
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| | Jacqui from Stirling. Posted 11 Oct 2006.
I am looking for a copy of the VHS tape short film of interviews from patients and a member of staff Lennox Castle, does anyone know its title and where i can get a hold of one?
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| | jackie nish from stranraer. Posted 1 Nov 2004.
I have just done an O.U course and one of the subject was institutions and Lennox castle came up and I have got intrested in the castle do no way but would like to know more information about it if any
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| | Lillian Haire nee Dempsie from Glasgow. Posted 14 Feb 2005.
My twin sister wa born here there in 1950. My mother had a high risk pregnancy and was sent there for the quietness.
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| | Joanne from Glasgow. Posted 6 Apr 2006.
Just type Lennox Castle into any major search engine and it will come up with quite a few sites on this subject. To anonymous - no it wasnt the horrible uncaring place you suggest, you obviously don't know anything about the people who worked there. You get uncaring people in all walks of life including the social work department.
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| | Yvonne from Glasgow. Posted 4 Apr 2005.
I have just begun an OU course KZX100, introduction to Health and Social Care, and as part of a case study, was provided with VHS tape with a short film of interviews from patients and a member of staff at this institution. Is this your film? I also have a keen interest on the subject as my Mother and her siblings were born there. I hope to find others from the OU,who would like to go on a personal study trip of Lennox Castle, perhaps to the Castle sight and to public records office to read any documents that are a matter of public record. This of-course would be extra-curicular.
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| | Scott Allison from Edinburgh. Posted 4 Apr 2005.
My grandmother, Isa Murphy, lived in Lennox Castle for around 46 years from 1939 to the mid 1980s. If anyone remembers her it would be very interesting to hear from them. At the moment she lives in a nursing home in Broughty Ferry and is not too well.
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| | Anne O'Donnell from Edinburgh. Posted 6 Apr 2005.
You can read some of the stories of people who lived in Lennox Castle at: http://www.ckglasgow.org.uk/?s=support&m=cms&c_name=support403&c=
And, see what Lennox Castle looks like now by visiting: http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/Asylums/Lennox_Gallery/
There is a lot of talk about how care in the community has failed but reading some of the stories of people who have left Lennox Castle might give you a different idea. I have met people who lived in Gogarburn just outside Edinburgh - similar to Lennox Castle - and who have similar stories to tell. I also know many younger people who never had to face life in an institution because of their learning disability. I hope our society never goes back to the old institutions.
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| | Angela Turner from Glasgow. Posted 13 Apr 2005.
I am currently carrying out research into the history of people with a learning disability in the west of Scotland and would very much like to get my hands on any film or documentary evidence on Lennox Castle - does anyone know where this could be accessed?
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| | Martin Dobson from Glasgow. Posted 1 Aug 2005.
It might be of interest to those posting here that the hospital grounds will soon be given a new lease of life. Celtic FC have today signed missives on 50 acres of the land to develop their training and sports academy there.
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| | Janette Robb from Helensburgh. Posted 28 Nov 2005.
My aunt was a nursing maternity sister in Lennox Castle for 25 years. I think she left in 1964. That may have been when the Maternity section closed down. Unfortunately she died 8 months ago, aged 89. We have found photos of staff and doctors amongst her belongings, should they be of interest to anytone.
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| | Sean Cairns Jessiman from Aberdeen. Posted 16 Sep 2005.
WOULD ANYONE WHO WORKED AT LENNOX CASTLE HOSPITAL IN 1963,AND KNOWS OF A YOUNG LADY TO THE NAME OF ELIZABETH CAIRNS WHO HAD A SON CALLED SEAN CAIRNS PLEASE PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME ASAP,THANKYOU FOR YOUR TIME .SEAN CAIRNS JESSIMAN.
Would anyone who worked at Lennox Castle Hospital in 1963, and knows of a young lady to the name of Elizabeth Cairns who had a son called Sean Cairns. Please, please get in touch with me ASAP. Thank you for your time. Sean Cairns Jessiman.
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| | Anonymous from Scotland. Posted 13 Jan 2006.
I work with a number of people who now live in a small 6 bedded unit, but who used to live in Lennox Castle. Having worked with these people for some time it has been heartening to see the progress that they have made in the short time since they left Lennox Castle. I am of the opinon that Lennox Castle was a horrible, uncaring place to live. Thank God that we have moved away from those sort of conditions.
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| | Dominic Anderson from Glasgow. Posted 13 Jan 2006.
I run a website about lennox Castle hospital. www.lennoxcastlehospital.s5.com. it may be of intrest to some of you as it is the only resource on the web dedicated to the history of Lennox Castle.
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| | David Appleman from Glasgow . Posted 12 Jul 2006.
I wrote a polemical essay with photographs, ‘Living In The Margin’, published by Variant Magazine number 9 summer/winter2000. Contact details are, www.variant.randomstate.org Alternatively, web search variant magazine, the essay is online.
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| | Janet Helgason from Alberta, Canada. Posted 12 Jul 2006.
I'm looking for 2 nurses that I believe worked @ Lennox Castle in the late 1940's. They were sisters. One was a nurse/supervisor and was married to an attendant at the hospital. The other was younger and was a nurse. I don't know their names. Their brother was in the army during WW2 and then emigrated to Canada.
Any help would be appreciated. I'll follow up any lead or clue to what their surname may have been. Thank you
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| | Laura Phillips from Glasgow. Posted 12 Jul 2006.
A distant cousin of mine resided at Lennox Castle, I remember visiting him when I was quite young. We have no idwa if he is still alive or where he is. His name is Thomas O'Brien and he was at Lennox Castle probably from about mid 1970's, If anyone knows anything about him can you please let me know......many thanks.
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| | Ann from Glasgow. Posted 11 Oct 2006.
My aunt Jean Doyle lived most of her life in Lennox Castle. would love any info about her or to get hold of the video.
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| | Marilyn Sutherland from England. Posted 11 Oct 2006.
I was born in 1952 at Lennox Castle. After a 7 day stay at the Maternity Unit my mother returned to her family home in Buckinghamshire. I was left behind with my fathers family in Glasgow. I never realised that Lennox Castle was such a sensitive subject to others, I believed it was only a problem area for me. I intend to visit the area next year, I'm not really looking forward to it. The entire complex seems such a sad place.
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