Tag: Bangour

The Old West Bangour Farm

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West Bangour farm, Bangour, Dechmont, EH56 When we hear the place name ‘Bangour’ we usually think of the hospitals or the new housing development on the site of the Old village Hospital. Yet, West Bangour Farm is actually much older than both hospitals. But it sits thre quietly but not Invisible. Let’s explore its history […]

Bangour General Hospital – The Hospital on a Farm

The Bangour General Hospital was originally a military hospital, commissioned by the EMS in 1939 to deal with the war wounded of WW2. It was a prisoner of war style institution that was a defensive tactic against air raids. In 1948, it transitioned to a General hospital and became the Birthplace of most West Lothian people born before 1989. It is completely separate from the Village Pschiatric hospital that you can still find today. The general hospital was demolished. There are no ruins. The only sign of it ever being there is the brick wall at the gatre and a few solid parts of ground in the fields which would have been the base for the wooden huts to be built upon

If you ask the majority of West Lothian’s population born before 1989, where they were born, they will answer ‘Bangour’, by which they actually mean Bangour General Hospital. Now, I’ve seen a lot of references online to be people being born in the village hospital. This is the luxurious Victorian Stone built Village hospital we […]

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