Heaven & Hell!

Took hubby to a wee place I have been meaning to visit for about 30 years and today finally managed it. We went to Schoenstatt Scotland the tiniest wee chapel ever hidden away at the foot of the Campsies. A real wee gem of a place full of peace & tranquility. Well worth a visit. Then I took him to Lennox Castle as he was in fact born there when it was a maternity hospital as well as finally being what was called in these days a mental hospital! It is one of th scariest buildings I have been to in a long time! I could almost feel the presence of long dead demeted souls! A professional photographer used to go there to take photos of the patients and my God were some of them just the epitomy of misery! He hated going there!
Couldnt have bee to two more contrasting places in the one day

Here's a wee bot about Lennox castle

The Kincaids erected a tower or peel at the end of the thirteenth century when they obtained their lands.[2] Nothing remains of this today, but a house was built in 1690, enlarged during the eighteenth century and rebuilt in 1812.[2]

Kincaid House is located on the old Kincaid lands in what is now Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was the ancestral home of the Kincaids of that Ilk, with the oldest part of the house dating back to 1690. The current style of the house was designed by architect David Hamilton for John Kincaid of that Ilk in 1812. His son and heir, John Lennox Kincaid Lennox, had Hamilton design and build Lennox Castle on the ancient Lennox of Woodhead estate in the Parish of Campsie; about a mile and half west of Lennoxtown, between 1837 and 1841. The family moved there and Kincaid House was sold in 1921. It was eventually converted into a hotel and remains in use as such today. Lennox Castle was sold in 1927, and for some time after that was used as a mental hospital, as well as a maternity hospital. The last patients left the hospital in 2002,[11] and Lennox Castle remained empty until it was severely damaged by fire on 19 May 2008.
Part of the former castle grounds is now the site of Celtic Football Club's training facility.

schoenstatt