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©william craig
Dist:0.2km<br/>Auchneagh Road continues straight uphill onto Wren Road in the Fancy Farm housing scheme. The brown building with the tall chimney is Greenock Hospital Laundry which is earmarked for closure. The River Clyde and Argyll hills can be seen in the distance.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>The road from Inverkip Road to the older part of the hospital complex. View looking away from the hospital.
©Thomas Nugent
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©John Ferguson
Dist:0.3km<br/>A WRVS coffee shop in the grounds of Ravenscraig Hospital.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>The eastern facade of the original part of the hospital.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>The main entrance to the older part of the hospital complex.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of the main hospital building.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.4km<br/>The A78 towards the centre of Greenock, viewed from the footbridge near Branchton Station. The high rise block is Ravenscraig Court.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.4km<br/>Function unknown, looks like a toilet block.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.4km<br/>A well known local landmark on the hill on the A78 between Rankin park and Branchton.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.4km<br/>Ravenscraig is set in extensive parkland style grounds.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.4km<br/>Traffic calming measures on the main road through the Pennyfern housing scheme in southwest Greenock.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.5km<br/>Many of the older red sandstone parts of the hospital are now closed and boarded up. The hospital opened in 1879 as Smithston Poorhouse and Asylum, changing to Ravenscraig Hospital with nationalisation in 1948. The entire hospital was taken over by the Royal Canadian Navy as their headquarters in the Clyde estuary area during WWII.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.5km<br/>Thistle patterned finial, possibly also a lightning conductor, on one of the small spires on top of this building at Ravenscraig Hospital [[839428]].
©Thomas Nugent

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