Glasgow Blind Asylum (Glasgow)

 abandoned / shut down, folly

Built in 1879, to a design by William Landless , this oddity housed the Royal Asylum for the Blind. Historically, it provided accommodation for the blind – principally children and aged women, and provided education and training at a time when the blind were considered the most downtrodden in society. The building was taken over by Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1935 who used it as an out-patients department until the late 1980s.

Since it was closed in 1989, most of the building was torn down save for the Grade A listed clock tower, and has stood derelict almost as something of a folly on the GRI campus. An attempt to revive it in 2004 when the adjacent car park was built came to nothing, as of 2011 it was put up for sale again in the hope that someone gives it the TLC it so richly deserves.