The Union of Dumb Amateurs

I was born in the old Duke Street hospital more years ago than I care to remember. Today, the remnants of the former hospital sit boarded up, empty and somewhat forlorn beside a Lidl store. Built in 1904 in the days before the NHS as a Poor Law hospital, it sits today like relic of times gone past and only its grade B listing has stopped the bulldozers sweeping it away as they have with so much of Glasgow’s history...