Rosslynlee Hospital

Opened in 1874 as the Midlothian  and Peeblesshire County Asylum in response to pressure on bed occupancy in nearby Musselburgh and Edinburgh, Rosslynlee Hospital is one of the last of the little purpose-built Victorian asylums which dot the Scottish landscape.The psychiatric services started to move to community-based provision as early as the mid-1960s, and now the hospital is finally shutting its adult facilities and centralising them to Edinburgh. This was filmed on a bleak midwinter day in January 2007, a couple of weeks before closure. Parts of the hospital are already derelict, but enough survives to give a good impression of life at Rosslynlee, with a theatre, a farm and spacious grounds..