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Old Photograph St Margaret’s Hospital Auchterarder Scotland
Old photograph of St Margaret’s Hospital in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The Glasgow based architects Stewart and Paterson were commissioned by Andrew Thomson Reid, born 1863, died 1940, of Auchterarder House to design a cottage hospital as a memorial to his parents. The architects had worked for Reid on additions to Auchterarder House before the First World War. Building work commenced in 1924. W. G. Gordon, builder, was awarded the contract for the mason work, and George Miler and Sons carried out the slater work. The site to the west of the town had been granted to Reid by Auchterarder Town Council. The hospital was officially opened by the Duchess of Atholl in August 1926. Amongst the dignitaries who attended the ceremony were Andrew Thomson Reid, his brother Edward Thomas Scott Reid, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, Viscount Haldane and the American author and social commentator, Mary Follett, who was a guest of Lord Haldane. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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