Edinburgh hospital history

Hospital wards of the old Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

Old Royal Infirmary Hospital Buildings, Quartermile, Edinburgh.

Old photograph of the Children's Wing of the Hospital in Leith, Edinburgh , Scotland . 1788 saw the institution of the Edinburgh and Leith ...

Old photograph of the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was established in 1729 and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire. The infirmary had received a Royal Charter from George II in 1736 which gave it its name of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and commissioned William Adam to design a new hospital on a site close by to…

Lothian Health Services Archive - LHSA holds the historically important records of Lothian NHS hospitals and other health and medicine-related records of organisations and individuals.

This week our blog focuses on two of Edinburgh’s smaller hospitals: the Bruntsfield Hospital and the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital. During the 19th century, the medical profession was a predominantly male dominated environment, however, changes were afoot. The Bruntsfield Hospital and Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital (EIMMH) were formed to meet the wishes of two Edinburgh pioneers of medicine, Sophia Jex-Blake and Elsie Inglis – to provide healthcare for women and to offer…

ONCE a school and later the Royal Infirmary, the former main Edinburgh hospital is a massive edifice in a city famed for its imposing buildings.

Old travel Blog photograph of Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Deaconess Hospital was opened in 1894 in a building next to St. Ninian's Mission. It provided practical training in nursing for Deaconesses, each of whom spent a year there as part of her training. Deaconesses who wished to become fully qualified nurses spent a further three years in the hospital's Nurses' Training School. The original hospital had 24 beds. Extensions in 1897 and 1912 brought this total up to 42…

Old photograph of Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The estate in which this building is located was sold in 1773 to Alexander Monro, who was second of three generations to be Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. It stayed in the Monro family for more than a hundred years. In 1877, the estate became the property of the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Company, who set about building a hydropathic institute. The Hydropathic was built in the Italian style…

Museum in Chambers Street Edinburgh

Old Royal Infirmary Hospital Buildings, old and new Quartermile, Edinburgh.

Western General Hospital Both my husband and myself Were born there.

Abandoned Palais de Danse Clings to Life on Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge(The Palais de Danse opened in 1921 on Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, and was one of the city’s top music venues before closing in 1967. It’s now facing demolition)

Old photograph of Stobhill Hospital in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland. Stobhill was originally a Poor Law hospital, commissioned by the Glasgow Parish Council, to an 1899, John James Burnet judged competition winning design by Glasgow architects, Thomson and Sandilands. The foundation stone was laid in September 1901 by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, and Stobhill Hospital was formally opened on 15 September 1904. In September 1914, at the beginning of the…

Corner of George IV Bridge & Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. 1930s?

Broughton Street, Edinburgh. Early 1950s.

In our @ARAScot #ArchiveZ, R is for Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh! Founded in 1729 and still running today (in a considerably larger form!), here's what the RIE looked like in the 18th century!

Old photograph of Bruntsfield Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish Hospital started in 1878 as a women's out-patient dispensary opened by the city's first female doctor, Sophia Jex-Blake. It soon added some beds for in-patients, and moved from a busy, central area to the more peaceful Bruntsfield before the turn of the century. Its name from 1885, Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, continued in formal use into the 1930s, but before 1920 it started to be known…

Maker: Archibald Burns (1831-1880) Born: Scotland Active: Scotland Medium: albumen print Size: 3 1/8" x 4 1/8" Location: Object No. 2017.1049 Shelf: A-28 Publication: R.M. Ballantyne, Photographs of Edinburgh, Andrew Duthie, Glasgow, 1868, pg 79 Other Collections: Notes: Archibald Burns was a photographer active in Edinburgh between 1858 and his death in 1880. He provided photographs for the tourist trade and to illustrate books including Picturesque Bits from Old Edinburgh (1868). In 1871…