Former workshops and mortuary, Dykebar Hospital
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Former workshops and mortuary, Dykebar Hospital
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe Taken: 2 Mar 2023
Some of the buildings of the former asylum, which opened in 1909. It is one of only three asylums to be built in Scotland which adopted the advanced 'village' philosophy of care for the mentally ill and is the most complete designed by a single architect (Thomas Graham Abercrombie). Many of the buildings are together Category B listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB38961. The mortuary building is on the left. The chimney is part of the laundry.
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55.825194
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