WHEN homes are hard to come by, any shelter will do.
But for these people squatting at Cowglen Hospital on Glasgow’s south side, it is time to move on after police were given the order to force them to leave.
The hospital, opened in 1882, became famous during the Second World War as a base for the 316th Station Hospital of the American Army Medical Corps.
The Americans arrived in August 1944, and received a total of 1000 admissions there, some of them soldiers so badly injured they were in Glasgow only until recovered enough to make the journey back to the US.
The hospital also treated German sailors injured in battles at sea.
In 1948, Cowglen became part of the fledging NHS and ultimately was used to treat elderly patients and
chronically sick children.
It was home to these families for a while in 1951 and was demolished in 2001.
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