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. The architects were Burnett and Boston of Glasgow in conjunction with the architectural department of the Western Regional Hospital Board. EMS huts were built from which a 160bed medical unit was retained after the war and a nurses training school established in conjunction with it by 1955. It was begun in 1893 to designs byMalcolm Stark. Thanks for letting me know, I will amend the text. I was born at 63 possil road, Maryhill. The landing page for your birth also shows a heading: ]. I have a recorded birth of a relative which states he was born in 1894 at ''Glasgow maternity hospital''. song that goes bum bum bum 2020. old rottenrow hospitalconservation international ceo. to design a new asylum. In 1921 a separate Childrens hospital was established at Mount Vernon, in a house gifted by Mr and Mrs William Fyfe. . The hospital was put up and opened in haste, wards were built in pairs, originally with four pavilions providing eight 16-bed wards these were subdivided to partition off five beds for convalescents. The site was somewhat cluttered by 1990 with an architecturally unrelated series of buildings from the various phases of the hospitals development. The design was based on a unit built by the South Eastern Regional Hospitals Board. As at Craiglockhart, the hospital section was built on the pavilion plan. When the Glasgow Eye Infirmary was destroyed by fire in January 1971 the allocation of beds at Gartnavel was revised. The Rutherglen site was acquired in 1967 and plans revised for a hospital with 79 specialist beds and 25 GP beds. Eventually, however, it was realised that a new building on a new site was necessary and the asylum was replaced by Charles Wilsons new asylum at Gartnavel in 1843. Millers first plans for a severe Baronial building were revised in favour of a design which echoed elements of Adams Infirmary, notably in the Cathedral Square facade, although the result is less than satisfactory, as Adams classical scale and proportions were lost in Millers stretched elevation. From Yachting Residence to Seaside Convalescent Home. Most of the 1870s, baronially detailed, work has been demolished. 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. It was the first Cancer Hospital in Scotland. The Infirmary was founded in 1824, opening on 7 June at No.19, Inkle Factory Lane. [8] The park's heritage is also recalled by a giant metal nappy pin, created by sculptor George Wyllie. Two years later a new 25place day hospital was opened and work began on a new 60bed psychogeriatric unit. 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. All three hospitals, and a new nurses home at Woodilee, were formally opened on 15 September 1904. It moved to St Andrews Square in 1841 and in 1860 to the Rottenrow: it has been nicknamed The Rottenrow ever since. Glasgow's Benefactors. It was constructed from red sandstone in a mixed style with Scottish Baronial and Art Nouveau elements. (1914 - 1960) Address. During the 1960s a Physiotherapy unit was built, a new premature sick baby unit completed and a new psychiatric outpatient department opened in May 1970 at Carsewell house formerly the nurses home. The building was plain and simple, of three storeys and attic with projecting wings at each end. Plans were invited in a competition for an infirmary of 250 beds and 46 sets of plans were received which were judged by John Carrick, the City Architect, and Dr J. By The Newsroom. Completely new buildings were erected on the Rottenrow site in 1880/81 and a substantial extension added in 1908. Originally known as the Parliamentary Road Fever Hospital. The Wellcome has a painting of the hospital, this is the web address: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ejn2x4eb/items?sierraId=, PS Mrs Richardson, who knows? The title Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital was granted in 1914 and the shorter version adopted in 1960. [Sources:RCAHMS, National Monuments Record of Scotland, drawings collection; The Hospital,Jan. 1960 p.66.]. If it puts you to sleep that fast, maybe we can patent it, bottle it, put a sticker on it and sell it as a new cure for sleeplessness. In its design, efforts to avoid an institutional atmosphere were made, and particular thought given to the selection of colour schemes. 146 - 163 Rottenrow Glasgow G4 0NA . The new building replaced five private nursing homes which the Order had run since 1948, when it first settled at Langside. Staff and student accommodation were provided in adjacent blocks. There is a picture of number 44 on Street View Alexander Elder allocated 100,000 from his estate to construct a hospital shortly before he died in 1915. GB 0812 HB 28, Records of Western Regional Hospital Board, Glasgow, Scotland. Stobhill was the largest of the three and was intended to provide 1,200 beds. The hospital comprised two wards of twelve beds each with a sun-room. The scheme constituted a departure from the former system of the combined poorhouse which catered for all categories of the poor, including lunatics and the physically sick. and consists of two blocks linked with a corridor rising to six storeys. To two of the pavilions, further wards were appended, with just four beds each, in order to be able to admit more than just fever cases. 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. His brother who was born a year later was born in Dumbarton. The site was further extended to 40 acres before the first sod was cut in April 1935. Would like to hear more about the Stobhill General Hospital. Glasgow Maternity or Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary (1865 - 1873) Glasgow Maternity and Women's Hospital (1874 - 1914) . While I know its still standing it is in very poor condition. The Glasgow Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary was founded in 1834 in Greyfriars Wynd. Does anyone know if 200 St Georges Road, Glasgow was ever registered as a nursing/maternity home? 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. DUKE STREET HOSPITAL (largely demolished) Duke Street Hospital originally opened as the Eastern District Hospital in 1904. It remained in use as the city poorhouse until it was finally demolished at the turn of the twentieth century. Sincerely & Gratefully Yours,, It would be worth asking at you local library, if you are in Scotland, to search the Ancestry or Scotlands People websites. Two years later Miss Agnes Barr of Carphin presented the hospital with two houses in Paterson Street, for use as a dispensary and outpatients department. Above the entrance a typical Adam style fanlighted tripartite window was set within a pediment carried on coupled columns. There was limited medical care available to the inmates as the Glasgow College of Surgeons and Physicians alternated in attending the hospital. All the buildings on the site have now been demolished. About Places Records Transcribe Contact. The chief features of the original building have been reproduced and there have been added at each side substantial wings. Royal Maternity Hospital, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh: Order now: Edinburgh SC39/8/62: . Google Maps. No mention of its being a maternity or nursing home. In 1960 work began on a new wing for operating theatres and an x ray department, it was completed in 1965 and in the same year, during work on one of the surgical wards, it was found that the entire Burnet building was structurally unsound and would need to be demolished. The Nursing home in Merrylaand trees was St Francis . Along the road adjacent to the lodges are two staff houses and eight semidetached staff cottages with bold castiron railings enclosing the site. It was a trip down memory lane for sure. SHIELDHALL HOSPITAL, GOVANA local authority infectious diseases hospital, situated just to the south of the Govan Combination poorhouse. DAVID ELDER INFIRMARY, GOVAN (demolished) The Infirmary was completed in 1928, designed by the firm ofJohn Keppie and Henderson. The site of Hawkhead was purchased in c.1889 and eight local architects requested to submit plans for a 400bed asylum, with an administrative section suitable for an extended asylum of 600 hundred beds. 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Completely new buildings were erected on the Rottenrow site in 1880/81 and a substantial extension added in 1908. . Originally it was designed as an infectious diseases hospital, the need for which was outlined in 1931 by Glasgows Medical Officer of Health. Jean, third from right, worked at Rottenrow in the 60s (Image: Jean Bertram). I was born in either Stobhill or Ruchill hospital in 1954. The old asylum found a new life as the new premises for Glasgows Towns Hospital (see separate entry, under Glasgow). Before 1914 a new laundry and laboratory accommodation were built. I was born in Merryland Street 44 ,Glasgow.in 1945. The maternity hospital is now the St Francis Care Home. The plan, which combined single rooms with wide corridors serving as day rooms with small wards, became the standard plan for subsequent asylums and was adopted by the Board of Lunacy for the early District Asylums. It closed in 1982. The Lock hospital only took women - there was a separate hospital for men. Despite much protest, the hospital closed in 1998. The word "Lock" name was . The buildings form an impressive range, built in red sandstone the administration block is dominated by massive twin pinnacled towers as at Woodilee, but the style is altogether different, in the French Renaissance manner with rich carved details. Lennox Castle, before it became a roofless ruin, photographed by RCAHMS. The site is to be redeveloped by the University of Glasgow. When Glasgow Town Council opened the Parliamentary Road Fever Hospital in 1865, more beds had still been required and in the Autumn of 1870, Belvidere House and its 33 acre estate were purchased to provide a site for the new fever hospital. When a doctor at Glasgow's Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, helped by the discoveries of two other 19th Century Scottish medical pioneers, undertook surgery to successfully deliver the baby of a young sewing machinist, they changed the course of obstetrics. The discovery of old coal workings on the site, which required to be filled in, delayed construction work. [Sources: The Builder, 16 June 1900, p.591; 21 July 1900, p.55, 8 Sept. 1900, p.2145: O. M. Watt, Stobhill Hospital, first 70 years, 1971.]. He was to be one of the leading figures in Scottish Medicine and Hospital design at the turn of the century. In comparison with the other town infirmaries which were in existence by the end of the eighteenth century, such as Aberdeen and Dumfries Royal Infirmaries, Robert AdamsGlasgow Royal Infirmary was a far more ambitious design and its impressive principal elevation was a dignified expression of civic pride. [Sources:Strathclyde Regional Archives, minutes: Swan,Views of Glasgow, 1829]. 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. I think it was demolished and replaced by flats. This was closed in 1941 having been damaged during an air raid. Great lengths were taken to ensure that the most up-to-date features were incorporated in the design and many other hospitals were visited to this end, including the Herbert Hospital in London reputed to be the finest specimen of a pavilion hospital in existence. As Woodilee marked the new developments of the 1870s so Gartloch marks the next stage in asylum design. Stoneyetts therefore became a certified institution for mental defectives until Lennox Castle Institution was opened. ),Hospitals and Charities Year Book, 1925.]. [Sources:Greater Glasgow Health Board Archives, Annual Reports;The Builder, 16 Nov. 1889, p.356; 17 Sept. 1898, p.255;Building News, 15 Nov. 1889, p.682.]. Until 1888 the Govan area had come under the Lunacy Districts of Glasgow and Renfrewshire, but Govan Parochial Board requested that there be a separate Lunacy District for Govan. It was still in operation at the turn of the century by which time it provided fortytwo beds. The hospital was famous in its day, as a place where worried fathers could be found in the street, banished there in the days . The hospital cost 250,000, and admitted fee-paying patients of all denominations. The reception house was designed to house 190 adults, though children were also admitted. 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. McDonald's hand-made machine is trundled down the wards of the city's Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, where it proves able to detect foetal abnormalities and multiple births, and revolutionises . The block is both well detailed and functional. It moved to its present site at 132 & 138 Hill Street in 1896 and an appeal was launched for funds to reconstruct the buildings in 1906. Barnhill or Barony Parish Poorhouse first opened in 1853. All data is anonymised. In 1933 plans were commissioned for a 350bed hospital on the Cowglen site. Originally it was designed as an infectious diseases hospital, the need for which was outlined in 1931 by Glasgows Medical Officer of Health. Hello. Check out this beautiful illustration of the Rottenrow Liked by Natasha Louise McMeekin Very excited to welcome Sarah Cleary to the team. Two picturesque lodges flank the entrance, which formerly also had an ornate archway. Necessary cookies enable core functionality. Old Maternity Hospitals Glasgow. Saturday 14th May 2022. 2001 Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, or to many Glaswegians - The Rottenrow - was founded in 1834 and demolished in 2001. The Rottenrow, c1984: t.p. The Eastern District hospital in Duke Street was built at a cost of 75,000 and provided 240 beds for medical, surgical, dermatological, paediatric and maternity cases. Kirn in Argyllshire. By the mid-nineteenth century there were other institutions near by. The last patients were decanted by March 2000 and the hospital was then closed. In 1902 the Glasgow Womens Private Hospital was established to provide hospital treatment for women by women doctors. 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. Financial constraints prevented any further expansion until after the formation of the NHS. [3], The original premises of the University of Glasgow were situated in the Rottenrow, in a building known as the "Auld Pedagogy". ELDER COTTAGE HOSPITAL, DRUMOYNE ROAD, GOVANDesigned bySir J. J. Burnetin 19012 it was erected in memory of John Elder, the third son of David Elder, by his wife Mrs Isabella Elder. Until 1888 the Govan area had come under the Lunacy Districts of Glasgow and Renfrewshire, but Govan Parochial Board requested that there be a separate Lunacy District for Govan. [SourcesGlasgow Fever Hospital, Annual Report 1866]. Her death certificate states date and time of death at Eastern District Hospital Glasgow and has the following written underneath: Completely new buildings were erected on the Rottenrow site in 1880/81 and a substantial extension added in 1908. . This was completed and opened in March 1967, with Yorkhill Court staff flats completed the following year. I have just spoken to him on the phone and he is happy . The enquiry block is placed at the head of steep steps up from the entrance. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia How can we still use a Fetal Cell Line from the 1960's to make vaccines today - Short video with Dr Stanley Plotkin . The Eye Infirmary finally purchased No.2 Sandyford Place in 1954. [Sources: Strathclyde Regional Archives, Minutes of Renfrewshire Combination Poorhouse, Crookston Cottage Homes, opening brochure, 1938: Department of Health for Scotland, 8th Annual Report, 1937, p.132: Scottish Record Office, plans, RHP 30867/113.]. This, like the geriatric units at Lighburn and Canniesburn, was based on the unit at Cameron Hospital in Fife. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. My mum was in one, She was in the ward at first, then the nurses moved her bed etc., out to the veranda. for an 80bed unit in 1955, this was later increased to a one hundredbed unit. It was planned to supersede Shieldhall Hospital. Accrington . Plans were invited in a competition for an infirmary of 250 beds and 46 sets of plans were received which were judged by John Carrick, the City Architect, and Dr J. My Grandparents werent so that adds to the mystery.It must have been there that he was born. [, Thisspecialist hospital was founded in 1872 and provided fourteen beds. [Sources: The Builder, 28 Sept. 1895, p.224:Building News, 7 Feb. 1890, p.294: Greater Glasgow Health Board Archives, plans.]. the hospital was built in 18757. Jean got in touch after reading a recent Times Past article on the history of Rottenrow - the Royal Maternity Hospital - which was established as the Glasgow Lying-In Hospital on Greyfriars Wynd in 1834.. Grateful for your consideration. In the same year the Medical Officer for Health in Glasgow, J. No progress had been made three years later when there was a serious fire at the site in the summer of 2015. You will be lead to a page where you can choose from various types of registration for the name you entered. REQUEST TO REMOVE Locksmiths in . ], Homeopathic Childrens Hospital, Mount Vernon. RM T549P1 - The University of Strathclyde Richmont Street Glasgow Scotland UK with the James Weir building in Montrose Street behind Rottenrow Gardens. Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital (1914 - 1960), Greyfriars Wynd (1834 - 1841) I have sent an inquiry to the Lochwinnoch Local History Form. Birth 23 Oct 1938 - Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, Glasgow. The East House was designed for lower class patients and the West House for high class patients. U.R. Everything changed. Unlike the villas at asylums such as Bangour, where the villas were designed to have a definite domestic appearance, the villas at stoneyetts are more like ward pavilions, with simple swept gables. 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. In 1966 a new 120bed geriatric unit was begun on the site with a new kitchen and dining area. The wide splay of the block and in particular the heavily glazed ends of the wings, emphasise the importance of light and air. On 22nd November 1877 a series of major additions were opened including a new dining and recreation hall, a separate dining room for private patients and a large general bathroom. Before the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948, free access to healthcare was not available to all expecting mothers. STONEYETTS HOSPITAL, CHRYSTONGlasgow Parish Council purchased part of the Woodilee estate c.1910 on which to establish an epileptic colony. Hi Tommy, if you could email me the image from Scotlands People I would be happy to take a look at it. They are flatroofed with whitepainted harled walls and balconies and verandas on the south facing elevations. 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. [Sources:Strathclyde Regional Archives:Account of Proceedings at Inspection of New Hospital for Infectious Diseases erected at Belvidere, 1877: J. In the 1920s a further development on the site below the main buildings, near the entrance gates, was built. All the pits had closed by 1896. The plan itself had an octagonal tower at its hub within which were the apartments of the superintendent and other ancillary offices. The Eye Infirmary purchased the first of these houses in 1928, when it acquired No.4 as a new outpatients department and nurses home. In the following year it was decided to build a smallpox hospital at Belvidere. We dont seem to have any connection to Glasgow so far. Hi I found this Duke Street was latterly used for Rheumatic disease. I couldnt find anything for 1946, although I expect you would be able to look at directories for that year at somewhere like the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, or the National Library in Edinburgh. The central portion contains the board room and accommodation for Doctors and Matron, while in the additions there are dormitories and sitting rooms for eighty-two nurses. [5], The Rottenrow is perhaps best known as the site of the Royal Maternity Hospital, the birthplace of generations of Glaswegians. The first wooden pavilion was occupied on 19 December the same year, and by March 1871 there was space for 250 beds (although, rather alarmingly, 366 patients were in residence). Robert Adam was requested to produce plans for the infirmary in November 1791. As a bit of a follow-on from yesterday's catch up with the Big Nappy-Pin at Rottenrow Gardens (apologies, that post has been delayed, but will be along shortly), I thought I should throw in a few pics of the remains left behind after the old hospital was demolished.. We have updated the terms for your databeats login on Hospital Records. The hospital closed in 1999. Chris Holme tells their story. The accommodation of the hospital was greatly extended when the TB hospital was built to the rear. Pingback: The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Its Early Days. In 1840 it acquired Starks Glasgow Royal Asylum building as new premises where it remained until the early years of this century. RM J026WP - Only remains of Rottenrow Glasgow Maternity Hospital, infants entrance, where fathers saw new born babies for the first time, Glasgow, Scotland . The maternity unit was enlarged during the 1940s. In their history of the College, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Fiona MacDonald state It could well be argued that maternity wards were primarily useful to men for teaching purposes and less so for women giving birth. (Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, 1999). Abertillery. The first patients were transferred from Oakbank in October 1971. All three hospitals were officially opened on the same day, 15 September 1904. ], Pingback: Hospitals for Incurables: the former Longmore Hospital, Edinburgh | Historic Hospitals, Pingback: Marvelous Maps updating the Scottish Hospitals Survey | Historic Hospitals, Looking for a hospital my mum was in for tuberculosis,was in countryside ,they slept outside on verandah,1960s, thought it was in Killearn, It may have been Lanfine Hospital bear Kirkintilloch or Birdston. Supervision was obviously a key feature of the plan. . When a doctor at Glasgow's Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, helped by the discoveries of two other 19th Century Scottish medical pioneers, undertook surgery to successfully deliver the baby of a young sewing machinist, they changed the course of obstetrics. The accommodation of the hospital was greatly extended when the TB hospital was built to the rear. All the ward blocks and ancillary buildings were built of brick, except the administration building which also contained the nurses home, which was of stone. After the inception of the National Health Service various additions were made and changes in function introduced. How did Rotten Row in Glasgow get its name? The Rottenrow building proved to be the hospital's definitive location and gave rise to its affectionate . LENNOX CASTLE HOSPITAL, LENNOXTOWN Lennox Castle, situated at the western edge of the hospital complex, was built between 1837 and 1841 to designs by David Hamilton. The foundation stone was laid on 1 June 1842. LIGHTBURN INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL The lodge is all that now remains of the hospital designed byJames Thomson, and built 18936. AS A midwife at Glasgow's famous Rottenrow hospital, Jean Bertram, nee Asquith, has many memories of a wonderful job. It had been resolved to build a hospital on European lines, other examples of this horizontal planning already adopted in Scotland were the Astley Ainslies new buildings, Stirling Royal Infirmary and Falkirk Infirmary. At this time it was agreed to release part of the site to the GPO for their Savings Bank head quarters. Hope this might put you on the right track. Already in 1938 the Scottish hospitals survey criticised the hospital as over crowded, old and deficient, and recommended that it be closed. STOBHILL HOSPITAL Stobhill Hospital was built as a poorlaw hospital by Glasgow Parish Council at the same time as the Eastern District Hospital in Duke Street and the Western District Hospital, Oakbank. Hi I have the death details of my great grandmother from Scotland People but cannot decipher the place it looks like she died between Shewan? Monument to Maternity: Little Known Treat - See 4 traveler reviews, 10 candid photos, and great deals for Glasgow, UK, at Tripadvisor. 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