Tag: building
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St. Peter’s Seminary
If you like exploring abandoned buildings, there is one place in Scotland you have to go. St Peter’s Seminary is an old Roman Catholic Seminary in Cardross, It has been abandoned since 1980, all that remains is the concrete structure and staircases, It is now home to explorers and graffiti artists.
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The Met Tower
The Met Tower is located at the north of George Square, most people know it at the “people make Glasgow” sign. It was formally The College of Building and printing and before that it was Stow College. This image is the back of the building from Cathedral Street. The Met Tower is due to reopen…
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Tannahill Empties
Tannahill Road and Tannahill Terrace was once a small community situated in the Ferguslie Park area of North Paisley, Now the whole area lay abandoned and boarded up. More than 250 homes were once occupied with families over many generations, they now lay abandoned and boarded up, soon to be knocked down to make way…
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Dunmore Park
Dunmore Park sits just north of Falkirk and is home to the famous Pineapple building that is a tourist favourite. This is where I started. When you walk round in an anti-clockwise direction the next ruins you come to is the Elphinstone Tower. This is a fairly big structure nestled in the trees, as it…
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108 Hope Street
108 Hope Street, also known as Scottish Temperance League Offices, is hidden amongst taller buildings that surround it. Built just before the 1900 it displays lavish stonework decorative design, it stands alone with no other building joined to it. Now hosts a cafe on the ground floor.
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Lion Chambers, Hope Street
Nestled in the heart of Glasgow City Centre, lies this white concrete skyscraper. Built back in 1907 as a white skyscraper, now sits a pale yellow and wrapped in wire mesh it lies abandoned and wasting away. I hope this building gets saved and refurbished back to its best.
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Stoney Brae, Paisley
A steep cobble walkway that takes you up to the Oakshaw area in paisley. Oakshaw Trinity Church sits at the top of the hill along with beautiful views to the north of paisley. Also a good climb to test your fitness.
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300 Bearsden Road
Former Robinson & Dunn Temple Sawmills Office Near Bearsden I found this beautiful art-deco styled building, It was formilly the Robinson & Dunn Temple Sawmills. It popped into my head as I was passing by it recently and seen they had bulldozed the property. Such a sad end to an amazingly beautiful building. Here it…
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Dykebar Hospital
During lockdown 2020 I explored Dykebar Hospital as local to where I was staying. This is a Mental Health Facility, it have been slowly closing and many of the buildings are now sadly boarded up, with many of them being listed. (Dykebar Hospital wiki page)
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3 Hospitals
Paisley has a few abandoned hospitals. The most popular is the old Royal Alexandria Hospital (RAH) it has been partially converted into flats but the main part and a few of the wards have been left to rot. Dykebar Hospital is still being used but many of the old buildings are boarded up as they…
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