Central 0790 [For a historic photograph of the hospital and further details of its history see the Historic Hospital Admission Records Project HHARP web page]. Most of the 1870s, baronially detailed, work has been demolished. Since then the site has been cleared and redeveloped with housing the old workers cottages have also been replaced. Premises were acquired at 163, Hill Street in the former Cowcaddens Free Church Manse and the hospital opened on 13 October 1890, with ten beds. Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, 1956 (Image: Newsquest) The move to Rottenrow, the street which gave the hospital its everyday name, came in 1860. Thank you, so good to hear your kind words. The 100-bed hospital consisted of three wings; a five-storey block containing wards and administration, the theatre and X-ray wings in single-storey, cul-de-sac form, and a four-storey annex for staff accommodation. Thanks for your reply and information. The new pavilion opened on 1 January 1902 and in the same year the managers resolved to erect a further pavilion of four wards for around 80 patients and an addition to the nurses home. The Institute of Neurological Sciences was formally opened in October 1972, comprising a 139bed Regional Neurosurgical unit which had been completed in 1970, and a further 50 beds in Phase II completed in 1971. My home at the time was in Maryhill so quite a distance for my dad to visit my mum. Find out more about our Privacy policy. King Edward mother and baby unit. Two picturesque lodges flank the entrance, which formerly also had an ornate archway. TOWNS HOSPITAL (demolished) The Towns Hospital in Glasgow was founded as a workhouse at the instigation of the Town Council, the Merchants House, the Tradeshouse and the Kirk Session. ]. Four of the blocks provided 20 beds the rest 30 beds. It is both architecturally and historically an important building. Completely new buildings were erected on the Rottenrow site in 1880/81 and a substantial extension added in 1908. If Id known then, in the early 80s, that many of these wonderful places were going to be demolished and / or redeveloped, Id have taken MANY more photos of the places where I worked and the people I worked with. In 1871 a new site was acquired on which to erect a purposebuilt hospital (now demolished), in Claremont Street opposite the Independent Church. 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Below them, to the north, a group of three buildings were provided for an enquiry block, flanked by the mortuary with its octagonal laboratory and the clearing house. It is a strongly horizontal, streamlined building with boldlybowed day rooms on the ground floor. It was lovely out there for the patients, As they could see Ben Nevis, Campsies from the big windows. Cathures, or Caer Clud (fortress on the Clyde) was originally considered to be an iron-age fort, which was supposedly destroyed during the building of the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital. or Wicklow? I was born at 63 possil road, Maryhill. The hospital closed in 2010, replaced by the redeveloped Southern General Hospital. the day. The landing page for your birth also shows a heading: The various buildings on site, located in the heart of the University's campus, were in too great a state of disrepair to be renovated; instead . Any idea on how I could find out which asylum it could have been? The new hospital was a steel framed building of four storeys with tall, giant order windows in castiron frames with Art Deco panels between floors. The outpatients department of six storeys opened in 1955. This contained the offices, kitchen, dining-hall, day-rooms and work-rooms as well as the accommodation for male paupers. She was taken Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, her records showing she had been sedated. In 1921 a separate Childrens hospital was established at Mount Vernon, in a house gifted by Mr and Mrs William Fyfe. [Sources:Buildings of Scotland,Glasgow, 1990, p.315:Glasgow Herald, 25 May 1914, p.5. BLAWARTHILL HOSPITAL, Holehouse Road, Knightswood Formerly the Renfrew and Clydebank Joint Infectious Diseases Hospital, it was designed byRobert Brydenin 1897. All three hospitals were officially opened on the same day, 15 September 1904. [A postcard of the hospital can be seen on the Mitchell Librarys Glasgow Storyweb page]. The first patients were transferred from Oakbank in October 1971. The Rottenrow is a street in the Townhead district of Glasgow, Scotland. Most of these whitepainted, rough cast blocks have now been redeveloped. After George Square, where it remained about four years, it moved to Chatham Place and from there it moved to St Vincent Place in 1896. Nonetheless, in 1966 the Western Regional Hospital Board decided that the age of the buildings and the cramped nature of the site necessitated the replacement of the hospital. I will look at on line newspapers for that time. STONEYETTS HOSPITAL, CHRYSTONGlasgow Parish Council purchased part of the Woodilee estate c.1910 on which to establish an epileptic colony. I continue to trace my family tree. It was the first Cancer Hospital in Scotland. Ruchill was an infectious disease Hospital, you were likely there with whooping cough and pneumonia. [Sources:Strathclyde Regional Archives:Account of Proceedings at Inspection of New Hospital for Infectious Diseases erected at Belvidere, 1877: J. Shortly afterwards a Royal Charter was granted. The Hospital was fully operational in mid1973 and the official opening performed by Princess Alexandra on 6 October 1973. asylum which had been steadily expanding since its construction in 1810. The Medical Superintendents house to the west of the administration block has quite a different character, it was designed as a charming Arts & Crafts style domestic villa, with halftimbered gables and overhanging eaves capping the asymmetrical house. , 7 June 1872, p.455: Buildings of Scotland, 1929 to 1999 the Homeopathic Hospitaloccupied this substantial villa built c.1887 with some fine domestic interiors. After the War a new pathology department and mortuary were proceeded with and further extensions to the nurses home. Work began in 1969 on a 256bed combined geriatric unit and day hospital. The hospital had beautiful buildings and I think the main administrative block and docotro and nurse residence is still standing though abandoned and derelict. The buildings were demolished in 2001. In 2001, Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital moved to the Princess Royal Maternity Unit building within Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Only a minor injuries unit has been retained. section. It originally comprised two ward pavilions, a third being added in 1887 for smallpox cases. The hospital was partially opened in January 1964, the opening ceremony taking place on 23 September by the Queen Mother. The Royal Maternity Hospital was founded in 1834 and was originally called the Glasgow Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary. To the south, the asylum section is of two storeys with twin square towers capped by pavilion roofs. B. Russell, the Medical Officer of Health of Glasgow. . Bosses at the university submitted plans for the 'Heart of the Campus' project earlier this year. It is a beautiful building with a verandah to the front and the ward had opening doors which enabled patients to access this. Alongside Rottenrow (a street name that dates to the medieval period), the facade of the Royal Maternity Hospital has been preserved. Dr R. Gibson Miller was primarily responsible for establishing a homeopathic dispensary which opened in March 1909 at No.8 Berkeley Street with financial assistance from the Houldsworth family. There was to be generous provision of cubicle accommodation, the latest development in ward design for infectious diseases whereby several different types of disease and cases which had not yet been diagnosed could be treated within the same building for the first time. Other additions included a bacteriology department in 1957, a premature baby and sick infants unit in 19589, the Edward unit for Mothers and Babies in 1963, Phase I of the clinical teaching centre in 1967, the pathology unit in 1968, and a new theatre suite in 1970. She woke up in a room with a . He drew attention to many new developments, including the surface treatment of the main walls atTenons hospital in Paris. Shortly after this the new Board of Management proposed that the vacant site in Sauchiehall Street be purchased to allow for an extension. CANNIESBURN HOSPITAL, BEARSDEN James Millerdesigned the original buildings for Canniesburn Hospital as an auxiliary hospital for the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. This was intended to give better treatment to the sick poor, in purposebuilt accommodation and in line with the facilities for patients with infectious diseases. Malcolm Stark won the competition in February 1890 although the location on the site for the buildings was not decided on until six months later. The hospital was to be built in memory of his father David Elder (17851866) who had founded the Elder Dempster Company and is generally regarded as the father of marine engineering on the Clyde. Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, Glasgow: Death: Immediate Family: Son of Adam Kennedy Rutherford and Annie Rutherford Husband of Evelyn Rutherford Father of Private Brother of Private . The last of the poorhouse beds disappeared in June 1936 and the hospital was handed over to the Public Health Department. LIGHTBURN INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL The lodge is all that now remains of the hospital designed byJames Thomson, and built 18936. The tower is crowned with stone angle turrets and a bold domed cupola. My mum was in one, She was in the ward at first, then the nurses moved her bed etc., out to the veranda. In 2015 the Western Infirmary closed, most services being transferred either to Gartnavel General or the Queen ElizabethUniversity Hospital on the site of the Southern General. It moved to St Andrews Square in 1841 and in 1860 to the Rottenrow: it was known popularly as The Rottenrow. As at Ruchill, the site is dominated by a giant watertower, built mainly in brick. Reference HB 45Dates of Creation 1834-1990Name of Creator Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital (maternity hospital : 1834 -2001 : Glasgow)Language of Material EnglishPhysical Description 23 metres. A separate hospital block was provided which later became the nucleus for Foresthall Hospital. It contained a large hall in which the inmates assembled for worship, a committee room and offices, as well as the inmates accommodation. [Sources: Building News, 12 July 1867, p.471; 30 December 1870, p.490: Greater Glasgow Health Board Archives, plans from Common Services Agency: Scottish Record Office, plans, RHP 30861/13]. ], Homeopathic Childrens Hospital, Mount Vernon. The baroque detailed door hood looks strangely out of place on the utilitarian porch. The tenements surrounding the Rottenrow were swept away to make room for the new University of Strathclyde, formed in 1964 from the Royal College of Science and Technology, and their inhabitants were moved into high rises. Opened in 1860 to replace an older maternity hospital in St Andrew's Square, it continued to function until 2001, when it was superseded by the Princess Royal building at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The other major extension on the site was the geriatric unit designed by Frank Burnet, Bell & Partners, the first two wards of which were opened in June 1967. The hospital was originally called the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary. An ironic echoe of Edinburghs Royal Infirmary, where William Adam had died in 1748, the year that his infirmary building was completed. [. In 2001, Glasgow Royal Maternity moved to the Princess Royal building within the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital (1914 - 1960), Greyfriars Wynd (1834 - 1841) To the north, the twostorey hospital block has a single short square tower at the centre with pavilion roof, a treatment repeated on the sanitary towers at the corners. The Hospital Records database is no longer being updated. Aberdeen. This forms the nucleus of the asylum section, a group of six tall, threestorey buildings, including the four villas with link corridors, and gabled single storey ranges for workshops, kitchen, laundry and boiler house, all surviving in excellent condition. Back when Rottenrow Maternity Hospital stood at the top of Montrose Street, many a nurse told of their struggle to reach the top of the hill to start their shift - worse yet a couple of readers who were pregnant at the time recall trying to tackle the incline while carrying another tiny human. Barshaw Hospital or Thorn/Thornhill Hospital at Johnstone are possible. [Sources:D. Dow,The Rottenrow, Carnforth, 1984. Officially opened on 8 September 1938, these buildings were specially designed to provide accommodation for the elderly, including married couples, which was an innovation long resisted by the Local Government Board in its poorhouses. 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