Found near Humbie village, in turn near Haddington in East Lothian is the spooky little "children's village". This was the object of yesterdays away day, and my was it stange. I'd been previously 3 years ago, but only as a stop off on the way home, so I'd been hankering for a return visit ever since. From a distance our first reaction was "on no too late, the developers have beaten us to it!." Mercifully we were wrong, the place has simply been lucky enough to avoid the usual vandals. Which made it all the more interesting to weander around. Unortunately all the houses had been cleared, so there was little to tell of what had actually happened here.
Not much information on Humbie has been turned up, the internet does not always have all the answers it seems!
However current information suggests that it was a "christian" childrens home / holiday camp / school, yes all a bit sketchy.
Children's Village, The
East Lothian
Lying prominently on a hillside, just to the south east of Humbie in East Lothian and 4 miles (6 km) south of Pencaitland, is the Children's Village. Built in 1905 in the form of a series of cottages to house disabled children. Run laterally by the Algrade Trust, the village closed in 1999 and remaining (adult) residents were relocated to new accommodation in the region. Alternative uses for the buildings are being explored, with a stated preference for conversion into a holiday complex or corporate conference / training facility. The buildings are listed for their special architectural and historical interest.
I'm quite sure that there will be many stories that can be turned up about this place.
More photographs will follow.