On Friday 29th June the Lennox Castle group went on a bus trip to the site of Lennox Castle Hospital. There's not much left to see as a housing estate has been built on the site of the old hospital. Although the "oval" (staff housing) had long ago been sold on as private housing the familiar layout is still there and the "doctors" house up the hill and the gate house on the Crow Road and within the grounds the roads and paths up and down the hill – so there was still plenty of material to spark off conversation.
Celtic Football Club let the group park the bus in the carpark of their training facility and from the top of the hill they could see the ruins of the old castle and in places the original red stone walls which still surround the site. At the foot of the Campsies, on a wet and windy day it was an atmospheric experience!
For some in the group it was their first time back to Lennoxtown in years while others return quite often to walk in the hills.
The group continue to meet at Project Ability on Friday mornings.
