Colinton Mains Hospital, Edinburgh

Category

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Item no

37900

Title

Colinton Mains Hospital, Edinburgh

Description

Message reads,
Cottage I, City Hospital, Edinburgh
I'm sorry I have not been to see you but I am in hospital with scarlet fever. I have been ill 5 weeks but hope to get home in about another week.
The others go to North Berwick on Saturday. How are you keeping?
This is a P.C. of the hospital.
Yours, P'.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1907

Size

8.8 x 13.8

Type

Postcard

Edinburgh's City Hospital was situated immediately to the south of Craiglockhart Hill, to the east of Colinton Mains Road. The building was designed by Robert Morham and opened in 1903 as the City Hospital for Infectious Diseases. The hospital had moved from a site at High School Yards in the centre of Edinburgh where it had been known as the City Fever Hospital. City Hospital closed in 2002 and was redeveloped as housing.

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