Exploring a Beautiful Abandoned 1800’s CASTLE in Scotland! - Lennox Castle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode we will be exploring an abandoned castle in Scotland named Lennox Castle. Lennox Castle is located in Lennoxtown, Scotland. It is known for once being Scotland's largest institution for people with learning disabilities. The castle was built between 1837 and 1841. In 1927, the castle and its land was purchased by the Glasgow Corporation, and was converted into the mental hospital. The hospital opened its doors in 1936. The castle itself was the nurses' home and its grounds provided accommodation for about 1,200 patients. Soon after opening, the facilities were vastly overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded. By 1982, 1360 patients between the ages of 10 and 80 years old were looked after by around 500 staff- with fewer than half of these being trained nurses. The care provided by the hospital was reported to be poor, with patients being malnourished. This hospital was shut down permanently in 2002. In 2008, there was a devastating fire that left the castle in ruins.
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I love castles, my fav, nice job guys! Mae ur feeling better with ur hand? Did u ever find an old pix of this castle ? Great vid!
Hi there welcome to the UK hope you stay to see real history go and walk round some of the national trust places.
I'm pleased you both enjoyed this explore and you made it out safely. I wouldn't be surprised underneath all the dirt and rubble there's tiled flooring. That would be superb to uncover 👍 Scotland is a magical full of mystery, which makes it all worthwhile to visit. Loving your videos as always from England 🌹 And Sony definitely the best. My late father would buy anything Sony related.
Awesome find you 2, nice camera work, & anything to do with castle's, peeks my interest, i want to know what it be living in those days. Keep the good work & keep the video's rolling, i subscribed for a reason. :)
Thanks a bunch!! 🙏
Good video Guys I'm Scottish and this is a local playground for me. You've captured it brilliantly and the narration adds so much. Well done new subscriber
Thank you so much!!
I prefer cooler weather and rain in the summer. All the humidity makes me go blah. Its beautiful in northern Scotland i hear.
Beautiful but sad. I’m not sure how Scottish Heritage operates. Nice tour wish I could be there-love Scotland. Thanks
Thank you!!
I find it odd that you can't understand why locals would graffiti these places. For the locals and Scotland as a whole, this wasn't a beautiful place, it was a place of torture. It was a medical facility where many people, who these days would receive help to live in the community at home with their families, would have been permanently institutionalised alone and subject to abuse and neglect. It has a shameful history and is a blot on Scotland. It should be completely torn down. The hospital's medical director, Alasdair Sim, said in 1986 he had "never worked in a worse pit". Hughie McIntyre was adopted as a baby but later his adoptive parents sent him to Lennox Castle and he never saw them again. "I didn't know why I was there, or what I did to deserve this," he says. "No-one came to see me. I had no family or friends." Hughie says he had no idea how he would ever be let out of the hospital. "I was in there for 16 years," he says. "I lost the will to survive. It's scary coming back into this place. "I remembered my life in there. I was tortured: beaten, kicked, heavily punched and I had severe injuries. I get nightmares thinking about it." The ruins of Lennox Castle cast a haunting shadow on the landscape and our social history. Though the institution gone, its past remains deeply embedded in the memories of patients and staff brave enough to share their experiences to help shape a better future for social care.
The graffiti in places like this has nothing to do with its history.
It always rain in Scotland lol. I hope you did have a good time @Urbax Vibes.
Hope you guys have an awesome Thanksgiving
Thank you! Hope you do as well!! 🦃
Just watched your recording of lennox castle. Totally amazing and sering so much detail giving you an idea of how it looked pre ruin. Take care
Another awesome beautiful location nice find guys
Thank you so much!
I'm thinking that's a Huntsmen spider...
They are not poisonous to humans ..
I figured it wa a Huntsmen spider but didnt know it they were poisonous.
So I googled it..
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I do enjoy your videos...
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We don’t have those spiders here in Scotland :)
my ancestor built that castle
Might I suggest ditching all your new clothes and coats and new backpacks and wear OLD WALKING gear plus wellies or builders boots!!!!!!
Lennox Castle was a psychiatric hospital and a notorious one at that. There's nothing nice about it. A friend was placed there when training as a nurse and had to request a change of placement due to what she witnessed. Many patients were very badly treated. It finally closed in 2002.
This is not a very old castle either in comparison with most in Scotland
Another great vid. Yikes, those spiders gave me chills. Hope you're ok from your fall. I have to admit though, I laughed when you hit your head on the tree branch lol. Good stuff guys. =)
Listed buildings like this always go on fire, then they put up a fence then leave to rot eventualy knocking it down for safety
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thank you for filming spiders, most people dont do that (like they didnt exist) but I think its part of the place to admire.
To be noted .....also they are not poisonous 😂 I did have a giggle, gurl u ain't in America 🕷 you are safe!
What a beautiful place this must have been what a shame 😔 it was completely destroyed. 😢
A stone canterlever staircase why didn’t you go to the top of it
You also need masks and gloves
Get thr gear
Love this, you guys have become my favorite explorers.
Common ordinary house spider. Not a black widow.
Thanks that place was awesome I enjoyed watching
Next to the gatehouse arch main entrance , there is a even older castle few meters away in the woods , it is a decayed old style Scottish tower house castle , the original family home
this castle right next to celtic fc training.
"who would swing in that!" -looks at the 3 hell on earth wackos- 😂
Things like toilets and doors and stuff like that will be from fly tippers there’s lots of them in the uk… back when this castle was made a toilet (if they had them) was like a plank of wood with a hole in it 😅
this is incorrect. This was built just before the invention of the flushing loo, but also it literally housed folks until 2002, even if they were not there when built, they were latterly fitted, there were toilets, it was a medical facility.
So at 19:03 there was a person passing the front door outside in a red jacket who was that?
Another person exploring the place
@@urbaxvibesI was worried it was a ghost 😂
Omg i live in scotland❤❤ I love this video
Thats so cool!!
That castle is beautiful and biggest
Such a beautiful castle!
Omg 😊. What a amazing video guys love it. I’m glad your ok not serious injured I can’t wait for the next one 😊
@urbaxvibes I agree with you about using Sony cameras. Mine have never failed. I don’t know about taking a $6,000 camera into ruins like that.
There was also a separate maternity unit in operation between the 1940s and 1960s; singer Lulu and footballer John Brown were among the babies i was born there july 1959
This was my ancestors home 😮
@41:32 - My Uncle Had An Old Army Military Survival Book - Berries , Etc. 3 Basic Ways You Can Test - For Food Safety - I'm Trying To Remember - I Believe One Was Gently Rub Under Arm Pit - Due Its a Sensitive Area -- IF - Your Allergic -- The - Thin Skin Under Arms Will Break Out - Gently -- Yes It Sounded Gross In Book - But For Safety - A Man Will Test - Even Though It May Pass Those Primitive Allergic Test -- Berries - On Your Skin - You Could Still Get Sick --- Basically Book Talked About Safety Law Of Average .. Those Blue Berries You Showed On Camera -- I Thought I Would Comment
Shame these weren't kept up better.
Hey guys!! I have a learning disability!!! 😊
Hi! How are you? Thank you for your continuous support!!
@@urbaxvibes I'm good! I know thet you don't know me but I think you are really cool!! And I whould love to be your guys friend!! 🙂
This is very cool History
The berries are edible, used to eat em all the time as a kid
We live in a nearby town, when my mum was in her teens she performed at Lennox castle with an accordion band she was part of. There was a patient at that time nicknamed buttons that went and stole all the buttons off my mums duffle coat, there was a girl who was there permanently they nicknamed sleeping beauty, she was in a catatonic state for many years and had beautiful golden hair that was always brushed out across her pillows. Some amazing stories from that place. Really such a shame what happened to it
A few women in my family were nurses there and at the woodilee asylum that was over in neighbouring Kirkintilloch. Shame you didn’t get here 15 years ago ago you would have had that place to explore too but it’s now a housing estate
Aw you guys missed out on those juicy brambles! Especially the one you took a photo of, we call them brambles but yes they are blackberries and those ones looked just lovely!
I wàs born there in the castle z
19:37
I think the first couple of rooms were potentially the boiler room and all the spaces were for the firewood. I may be wrong.
I’m a mental health nurse and have worked with people who worked there. The care was not as bad as it’s made to appear. I’m not saying the care was great, but it was appropriate of the times.
I have No Fear of Spiders but I must say Those Ladies were Huge 🕷️🕷️🕷️
Idk if you could get in but there's the Sauer castle in Kansas city it would be a cool explore !!! I love old castles so beautiful !!!
Beautiful footage! Thank you for the history and exploration.
This location has been my personal favourite urbex experience to date as I explored the castle last year.
Thank you once again.
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Thank you for watching!! 🙏🙏
Did you not do your research before you went?
How exactly do you think we found it if we didn’t do our research?
I would not like to have your job. It’s very dangerous, so be careful when you do these things. I know you already are being careful bud. Be extra careful around things like this.
Hey guys, it's not Bob wire, it's barbed wire or barb wire. I used to think the same thing.
You two are too daring
Please be safe.
@@LOOTLESS1 I love how you commented that comment on my comment and yes please do be careful
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Glad you weren’t hurt be careful
Thx for good video
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