New YouTube page

Please find link to my newly created YouTube page.  Feel free to enjoy and comment on my movie making talent (or lack of it!)


   

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSquashedfrogg

Sick Britain - Abandoned Asylums

I've come across this site on social bookmarking site http://www.delicious.com/ which lists the top 10 UK abandoned asylums.

http://www.sickbritain.co.uk/2009/08/top-10-abandoned-asylums-in-the-uk/

New youtube video

Our first youtube video containing photo's of Bangour Village Hospital.

 http://www.youtube.com/TheSquashedfrogg

Social Media - 17/03/11

We discussed outcome 3.  We have to select 3 forms of social media and review/evaluate using various criteria.

Outcome 2 assessment will now be on 31.03.11

Beer & Crisps

A brilliant recipe I submitted last year to student recipe.com

Definately one to impress people you have over for dinner.

Check out some of the kind comments or click the link below.

Beer & Crisps recipe

Mark - March 15, 2011, 5:56 pm

Legend!! ha ha However, slightly more complicated if you get the beer and crisps in the wrong order, your TV license has expired, the council tax bailiffs have taken the TV and the replacement you got from "Dave" at the local which only picks up Channel 5 only works properly if you hit it! All a nice idea at the time but too many "complications" to consider. Or is it just me?!

James - January 12, 2011, 8:20 pm

Bit of a lad arn't you..

Tom jack milly - May 21, 2010, 9:28 am

this is the best recipe ever!! im making this on tuesday.. ahh easy lessons FTW.<3

Dave - May 5, 2010, 11:05 am

Superb recipie. Really simple to make.

Unmarked graves of Bangour Village Hospital patients

Recognition for unmarked graves of Bangour Village Hospital patients

Apr 30 2009 by Debbie Spalding, West Lothian Courier

PSYCHIATRIC patients buried in unmarked graves have received the “respect they deserved” thanks to a local woman.

Catherine Ferguson recently discovered that 566 former Bangour Village Hospital patients whose bodies were unclaimed after they died were buried in unmarked graves in three nearby cemeteries.

But thanks to Catherine’s efforts, plaques have now been placed at Ecclesmachan Cemetery, Uphall Old Cemetery and Loaninghill Cemetery.

A special service of dedication was also held at Ecclesmachan Church last week.

She said when her father died in 1980 she was surprised to be told Ecclesmachan Cemetery was full, despite seeing an open grassy area with no headstones.

And after the recent death of her brother, Catherine was told patients from Bangour Village Hospital filled the unmarked graves.

With this information she decided to go to County Buildings in Linlithgow and search through the records there.

Catherine said: “I was astounded by what I discovered, so much so that several days later I returned to County Buildings again to recheck the figures.

"It’s important to have a memorial service for people who were forgotten in life and whose bodies were unclaimed in death.”

Catherine discovered that some of the graves were over 100 years old and the first patient who died was buried in Ecclesmachan Cemetery in 1904.

The asylum at Bangour was built in the 1900s for Edinburgh’s ‘lunatic paupers’ as they were known.

After they died and if their bodies went unclaimed by family, they received a basic burial with just the hospital chaplain and a staff member present.

The patients were most likely buried without headstones due to the cost involved in erecting a gravestone.

Catherine added: “I do believe that a marker of some kind should be placed to the patients whose bodies were never claimed and were laid to rest in unmarked graves.”

Bangour Village Hospital

I've just added our photo's from todays excursion to Bangour Village Hospital.

Please feel free to have a look on our flickr page.

Please not that due to the mental weather Saturdays pics are full of snow.

www.flickr.com/photos/bangourvillagehospital.



Derek