argyll and bute

March 2025 Visited with @Mr Budge, we set off early one morning, ready for the six-hour drive ahead. After a few coffee stops, we finally arrived in the small town of Lochgilphead. A lot of you will already know that some asylums let you roam their perimeter freely without any hassle, while...

History The Argyll and Bute Asylum, later Argyll and Bute Hospital, opened in 1863 as the Argyll District Asylum in Lochgilphead, becoming Scotland's first district asylum under the Lunacy (Scotland) Act of 1857. It served the vast counties of Argyll and Bute, officially becoming the Argyll...

History - "ARGYLL AND BUTE HOSPITAL, LOCHGILPHEAD Built as the Argyll District Asylum, it opened in 1863 and was the first district asylum to be built in Scotland following the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act. It was designed by David Cousin of Edinburgh and set the pattern for the subsequent asylums...

One of the best finds from our recent Scotland trip. I had no idea that there would be any buildings out of use at all here... Both Google and the asylums list mark it as 'open'. And indeed it is, well most of it anyway. A large block at one end of the site is sat unused, and looks to have been...