Edinburgh hospital history

Hospital wards of the old Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

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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…

Old Royal Infirmary Hospital Buildings, Quartermile, Edinburgh.

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…

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…

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh,Lauriston Place...

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…

The City Hospital was an isolation hospital in the south of Edinburgh catering for patients with TB and other infectious diseases

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

Elsie Inglis Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh

St Alfeges Hospital Deptford

The Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital, or Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital to use its official name, opened as Edinburgh's first planned maternity hospital in 1879. It was funded by subscription to commemorate Sir James... more

Edinburgh Railways in the 1950s,Corstorphine Station

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh,Lauriston Place..

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)