Entrance to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Category

Library Item

Item no

32103

Title

Entrance to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2014

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Morningside was once a village on a main road south from Edinburgh. In the 1850s it was no more than a row of thatched houses and a blacksmith's forge and beyond the Jordan Burn was open countryside. Nowadays it is predominantly residential with a collection of small traditional shops,restaurants,supermarkets,a library and hospitals.

Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Opened in 1813 with East and then West Divisions. The founder Andrew Duncan,was a campaigner for more humane treatment for people with mental health problems after seeing his friend Robert Ferguson, suffer in the old Edinburgh Bedlam. The original lodge house built near Millar Crescent is now situated at 23 Tipperlinn Road.
[Information taken from Morningside Heritage Association leaflet, "Morningside Heritage Trail".]

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