Come with Paranormal Scotland Ltd as we investigate the Tinto hotel in Symington, South Lanarkshire.
Tucked away in the beautiful Scottish countryside is the Tinto hotel. The hotel stands smartly among the tress and rolling hills of South Lanarkshire. Despite peaceful, scenic surroundings and an opulent interior, the Tinto Hotel may not be as sleepy as you might imagine. The former railway hotel was completed in 1914, the owners intending to provide a luxurious stopover for travellers en route to England, however the hotel never welcomed its first paying customer for many years due to the outbreak of World War One. The Tinto hotel was immediately requisitioned by the War Office to provide a haven for injured British officers. Some sadly never managed to leave, passing away in the hotel. Only when the horrors and hostilities of WW1 ended, did the Tinto hotel welcome its first guests, and did so proudly until it was called upon again to serve its nation as a hospital for Polish soldiers injured in conflict fighting the Nazis. The graves of some of the Polish soldiers can be found at the nearby ‘Shepherds’ Cemetery’ on the outskirts of Symington. During the Tinto Hotel’s wartime role, there was a secretive royal visit in 1942 by HRH Princess Mary the Princess Royal Countess of Harewood, aunt to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Mary is thought to have visited to see the vital work being carried out at the Tinto House Hotel, then being used as a war casualty hospital.