A lot has changed since Scotland closed its largest institution for people with learning disabilities 20 years ago but, for some, its shameful legacy lives on. Lennox Castle itself was built in the ...

IT was hailed as being ''100 years ahead of its time'' when it opened in 1936 to care for the treatment of people with learning disabilities. Hidden in a wooded estate, well outside Glasgow's city ...

An abandoned mental health hospital in Scotland has a chilling legacy. Malnourished and dangerously underweight, patients were beaten and tortured under the supposed care of Lennox Castle hospital.

AFTER 21 years in Lennox Castle, psychiatrists admitted they could find nothing wrong with Marie O’Connor. “I never belonged there, at least I knew that and that’s why I wanted away,” she says. “Your ...

Written by Linda McLean and performed by Lung Ha Theatre Company, Castle Lennox sets out to present a nuanced picture of life inside what was once Scotland’s largest hospital for adults with learning ...

Lennox Castle, in Lennoxtown, Dunbartonshire, was less of a mental institution than a warehouse, where those deemed society’s misfits were deposited. Truants, unmarried mothers, wayward teenagers and ...