Exploring a Beautiful Abandoned 1800’s CASTLE in Scotland! - Lennox Castle
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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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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
@urbaxvibes
4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!!
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.
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!
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
Hi there welcome to the UK hope you stay to see real history go and walk round some of the national trust places.
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
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. :)
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Thanks a bunch!! 🙏
Omg 😊. What a amazing video guys love it. I’m glad your ok not serious injured I can’t wait for the next one 😊
Another awesome beautiful location nice find guys
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
Golly Your Explorations to Abandoned Locations keep getting better and better and NEVER disappoint! 👍
It always rain in Scotland lol. I hope you did have a good time @Urbax Vibes.
❤BESAFE OUT THERE YAL AND LOVE Y’ALL ❤KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK YALL DO FOR US ❤
Beautiful but sad. I’m not sure how Scottish Heritage operates. Nice tour wish I could be there-love Scotland. Thanks
@urbaxvibes
5 ай бұрын
Thank you!!
Love this, you guys have become my favorite explorers.
thank you for filming spiders, most people dont do that (like they didnt exist) but I think its part of the place to admire.
@domm3688
Ай бұрын
To be noted .....also they are not poisonous 😂 I did have a giggle, gurl u ain't in America 🕷 you are safe!
I prefer cooler weather and rain in the summer. All the humidity makes me go blah. Its beautiful in northern Scotland i hear.
Thanks that place was awesome I enjoyed watching
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. T
@urbaxvibes
Ай бұрын
Thank you for watching!! 🙏🙏
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. =)
Hope you guys have an awesome Thanksgiving
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Thank you! Hope you do as well!! 🦃
This is very cool History
Thx for good video
Glad you weren’t hurt be careful
"who would swing in that!" -looks at the 3 hell on earth wackos- 😂
That castle is beautiful and biggest
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Such a beautiful castle!
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!
What a beautiful place this must have been what a shame 😔 it was completely destroyed. 😢
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 !!!
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.
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Omg i live in scotland❤❤ I love this video
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Thats so cool!!
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.. 🙂 I do enjoy your videos... ❤
@ArooDoggo
4 ай бұрын
We don’t have those spiders here in Scotland :)
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
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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 😅
@beccarmagie
Ай бұрын
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.
The berries are edible, used to eat em all the time as a kid
@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.
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So at 19:03 there was a person passing the front door outside in a red jacket who was that?
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Another person exploring the place
@cconwell21
7 ай бұрын
@@urbaxvibesI was worried it was a ghost 😂
I have No Fear of Spiders but I must say Those Ladies were Huge 🕷️🕷️🕷️
19:37
Common ordinary house spider. Not a black widow.
Hey guys!! I have a learning disability!!! 😊
@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
Hi! How are you? Thank you for your continuous support!!
@annegleason8442
7 ай бұрын
@@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!! 🙂
my ancestor built that castle
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@urbaxvibes
7 ай бұрын
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@lindamartin8504
7 ай бұрын
How are you after that tumble
@aidenthompson123
7 ай бұрын
Wdym
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.
@urbaxvibes
Ай бұрын
The graffiti in places like this has nothing to do with its history.
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.
@LOOTLESS1
7 ай бұрын
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.
@majesticespeon3126
7 ай бұрын
@@LOOTLESS1 I love how you commented that comment on my comment and yes please do be careful