Edinburgh hospital history

Hospital wards of the old Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

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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…

Photo about Ferguson Hall, the first completed flat conversion building at Quartermile, redevelopment of the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Scotland, UK. Image of redevelopment, apartment, flats - 17672039

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 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…

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…

Nurses & other employees City Hosp Edinburgh

Old nurses quarters at City Hospital love this building

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

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

Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital, Lauriston Place. 1930. Photograph by Francis Caird Inglis.

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

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)

London Hospital

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…