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Glen O Dee 9Sept97 1410313jhp Banchory Scotland hospital Glen O’Dee Nordrach sanatorium rear back view closed in this Aberdeenshire town some 18 miles west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland on the River Dee with this photo taken in September, 1997 just before it officially closed down. The town has always been a main visitor centre either for day trippers from Aberdeen or the usual flow of coaches and other visitors heading from Aberdeen westwards along Royal Deeside to Braemar and from there south to Perth or north to Inverness. It is also offers a very scenic route southwards over the Cairn O’Mount to Mearns. The river is a famous salmon fishing water which flows from the Cairngorms eastwards into the North Sea at Aberdeen. A colourful summer display and memorial Park is passed on the left hand side after leaving the town centre, it is adjacent to the start of the Golf Course and to the south is the distinct hilline of Scolty Hill with its Memorial Tower. The Glen O’Dee was sadly burnt to the ground in 2016 owing to an act of arson by teenagers. It is promised by the current owners/developers that this beautiful building would be restored. It was to have been converted into flats having fallen into disuse as a hospital given the costs of maintenance, H&S, Fire Regulations and of course the eradication of TB generally by modern medical advances. At the time of the fire it was in a very sorry state of disrepair. Originally opened in 1900 by Dr Lawson of Banchory as one of the earliest commercial sanatorium’s and with a design based on a German model, with a central granite tower, but mainly wooden construction with all rooms facing south for the sun while at the rear were the corridors and service rooms. It treated TB patients, including w. Somerset Maugham, based upon the pine forest air and plenty of sunshine idea. It closed in 1928, was later a luxury hotel, commandeered by the Army during WW2, in 1948 the Red Cross used it for treatment of ex-servicemen and women with TB, had a short-lived revival during the 60’s Typhoid outbreak in Aberdeen and in 1955 became a convalescent home under the new NHS until it closed in 1998 when a hospital facility in modern purpose buildings was constructed. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, Banchory, Town, River, Dee, Royal, Deeside, Glen O’Dee, Nordrach, Nordrach-on-Dee, sanatorium, convalescent, hotel, landscape, upright, back, into sun, empty, W. Somerset Maugham, writer, sufferer, hospital, TB, tuberculosis, typhoid, treatment, fresh air, sunshine, pine trees, landscape, 9th, September, autumn, closure, derelict, arson, burnt, wilful fire raising, destroyed, silver birch, trees, wooden, granite, tower, verandas, grass, colours, colors, colourful, colorful, red, yellow, blue, white, Bronica ETRSi, 40mm, polarised, Fuji, Velvia, transparency, 120, 645 format, digital, photograph, photo, slide film, scanned, scan, 1997
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Banchory Scotland hospital Glen O’Dee Nordrach sanatorium rear back view

closed in this Aberdeenshire town some 18 miles west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland on the River Dee with this photo taken in September, 1997 just before it officially closed down. The town has always been a main visitor centre either for day trippers from Aberdeen or the usual flow of coaches and other visitors heading from Aberdeen westwards along Royal Deeside to Braemar and from there south to Perth or north to Inverness. It is also offers a very scenic route southwards over the Cairn O’Mount to Mearns. The river is a famous salmon fishing water which flows from the Cairngorms eastwards into the North Sea at Aberdeen. A colourful summer display and memorial Park is passed on the left hand side after leaving the town centre, it is adjacent to the start of the Golf Course and to the south is the distinct hilline of Scolty Hill with its Memorial Tower.

The Glen O’Dee was sadly burnt to the ground in 2016 owing to an act of arson by teenagers. It is promised by the current owners/developers that this beautiful building would be restored. It was to have been converted into flats having fallen into disuse as a hospital given the costs of maintenance, H&S, Fire Regulations and of course the eradication of TB generally by modern medical advances. At the time of the fire it was in a very sorry state of disrepair. Originally opened in 1900 by Dr Lawson of Banchory as one of the earliest commercial sanatorium’s and with a design based on a German model, with a central granite tower, but mainly wooden construction with all rooms facing south for the sun while at the rear were the corridors and service rooms. It treated TB patients, including w. Somerset Maugham, based upon the pine forest air and plenty of sunshine idea. It closed in 1928, was later a luxury hotel, commandeered by the Army during WW2, in 1948 the Red Cross used it for treatment of ex-servicemen and women with TB, had a short-lived revival during the 60’s Typhoid outbreak in Aberdeen and in 1955 became a convalescent home under the new NHS until it closed in 1998 when a hospital facility in modern purpose buildings was constructed.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, Banchory, Town, River, Dee, Royal, Deeside, Glen O’Dee, Nordrach, Nordrach-on-Dee, sanatorium, convalescent, hotel, landscape, upright, back, into sun, empty, W. Somerset Maugham, writer, sufferer, hospital, TB, tuberculosis, typhoid, treatment, fresh air, sunshine, pine trees, landscape, 9th, September, autumn, closure, derelict, arson, burnt, wilful fire raising, destroyed, silver birch, trees, wooden, granite, tower, verandas, grass, colours, colors, colourful, colorful, red, yellow, blue, white, Bronica ETRSi, 40mm, polarised, Fuji, Velvia, transparency, 120, 645 format, digital, photograph, photo, slide film, scanned, scan, 1997