Barnhill Institute

[what0101]

I read on another forum a post from an ambulance driver that said elderly people still remembered it as Barnhill, and were terrified when they were taken there. Sounds like the reputation stuck even if it was no longer true.

[sancti]

Cunbernauld News 1975

[sancti]

The Scotsman 1965

[RJ_Paton]

I read on another forum a post from an ambulance driver that said elderly people still remembered it as Barnhill, and were terrified when they were taken there. Sounds like the reputation stuck even if it was no longer true.

Sadly very true. I remember speaking to one elderly woman who was being taken to the local hospital  by ambulance. She became really upset and was refusing to go when she found out she was being taken to the Annexe building which many decades earlier had been the Poorhouse unit

[KevG5044]

I wonder if anyone can help? On the 1921 Census for Scotland my Gt-Grandmother Mary Gorman was living at 19 Rosemount Street, Glasgow, and she was listed as a 'W' widow, my GT-Grandfather was a Shoemaker (Journeyman) and Labourer and was not listed on the same census nor was he on the 1911 census, but she was recorded as being married on the 1911 one. Therefore, I think between 1911 & 21 she either kicked him out or he left her as he definitely died in 1929, and address at the time of death was a Lodging house on Main Street, Govan. On searching the 1921 census for him I found a name, age and area match for him, as a 'Patient' in Barnhill, and I think it is him, and would really like to get more information? Unfortunately, I live in Reading, England, and can't get up to Glasgow? The details are: 1921 census: John Gorman, age 62, Garngadhill, ref 644/5 49/ 25 - It would be great if someone could help with this 

[hdw]

Here's a bit more info about Barnhill poorhouse. A distant relative of mine was assistant governor there in the 1870s.

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/family-history/stories-and-blogs-from-the-mitchell/times-past-blogs/barnhill-poorhouse-times-past

Harry

[hdw]

From an article in The Herald -

"Originally discipline at Barnhill was strict with able-bodied men required to make up 350 bundles of firewood a day, or break five hundredweight of stone in order to earn their keep.Those who failed to make the target were put on a bread and water diet instead."

Harry