Abandoned Spaces: Gartloch Hospital, with Ariane
Today I headed out to see my pal Ariane. A few weeks ago we loosely agreed on going on an adventure somewhere, and some point in the past few days she suggested Gartloch Hospital. A mental health facility that closed permanently in 1996.
I thought the place had been fully knocked down years ago, which is why I hadn’t already gone, so was surprised to see some of it still standing after a quick instagram search.
We took the train to Easterhouse and then walked North, and headed through some of what I think is the Seven Lochs Wetlands Park.
We passed a few deer and there was some construction work going on just outside the hospital.
Before heading into the main site, we saw this building just down the road and noticed a door was missing, so we found a way in and took a quick look.
The building was small, and the floor was thin. Thin enough that I was concerned about going through it, so I hung back on the solid concrete while Ariane got a few polaroid photos.
On to the hospital!
It's a beautiful building. It's a shame structures like this get left to ruin, but they do make great places to explore.
A quick hop over the fence, and you're right in.
There was full bottles of water everywhere.
This colourful graffiti made a welcome change to the typical swastikas that are usually in places like this.
It got dark, and surprisingly cold the further we got in to it.
Some floors were completely ruined.
I love the pockets of light in abandoned spaces.
Focusing in the dark was pretty difficult on my SLR camera, so not sure how the film is going to turn out. I probably bollocksed it up though - I don't shoot film very often and I'm firmly in the stage of over thinking the shots. But I'll wait and see the results before I get too bummed out about that.
Still probably not the worst toilet in Scotland...
We had a picnic, and then made our way back... diverting through some fields instead of walking along the roadside.
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