IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hairmyres Park, GLASGOW, G75 8SS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hairmyres Park, G75 8SS by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (6 Images Found)
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Strathtay Avenue
New houses on what was once part of the Hairmyres Hospital site.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 1 Aug 2014
0.14 miles
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New houses, Hairmyres
Called Orwell Court by the developers, this was once hospital ground. George Orwell was a patient here when it was a sanatorium in 1946.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 1 Aug 2014
0.16 miles
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Old Hairmyres Hospital
One of the few remaining old buildings at Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride.
Image: © Iain Thompson
Taken: 1 Oct 2005
0.22 miles
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Hairmyres Hospital
This was the original hospital which was built as the Lanarkshire Inebriate Reformatory in 1904. The buildings were later used as accommodation for male nursing staff and were demolished in 1989.
Image: © Elliott Simpson
Taken: Unknown
0.23 miles
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Hairmyres Hospital - a former Tuberculosis Ward
Having started life as the Lanarkshire Inebriate Reformatory (from 1904 to 1914), new buildings were added to form the Hairmyres Sanatorium and (TB) Colony - German POWs formed part of the construction team. It was opened in 1919. One famous patient was George Orwell who was admitted (under his real name of Eric Blair) in December 1947. His tuberculosis had been aggravated by his struggle to make his latest work, "The Last Man in Europe", his best book. He worked on the rough draft of this novel while at Hairmyres Hospital and finished it when he returned to Jura in July 1948. His publisher didn't like the title, so Orwell transposed the last two digits of the year of the work's completion and renamed in "1984". Orwell had been started on treatment with streptomycin, which he had obtained from a friend in America (where it had been discovered in 1944). Unfortunately he suffered side-effects and, although two other patients were successfully treated with his supply of this antibiotic, his treatment had to be stopped. Orwell died in January 1950.
Image: © Elliott Simpson
Taken: Unknown
0.25 miles