Hartwood Hospital

Hartwood Hospital
Hartwood Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire
	Hartwood Hospital
	Shown in North Lanarkshire
Geography
Location	Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates	55°48′36″N 3°50′55″W / 55.8099°N 3.8485°WCoordinates: 55°48′36″N 3°50′55″W / 55.8099°N 3.8485°W
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Type	Psychiatric
History
Opened	1895
Closed	1998
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

Hartwood Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the village of Hartwood near the town of Shotts 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[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Hartwood Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.

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[hh-1] "Hartwood Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

[mp2su-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.

[3] "Obituary: Archibald Campbell Clark, MD, F.F.P.S.G." BMJ. 14 December 1901. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

[4] "Minutes of meeting" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Health and Care Partnership. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

[5] Craig Williams (22 February 2020). "Former psychiatric hospital near Glasgow turned into 'Gotham Orphanage' for The Batman filming". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

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