Old Photograph Cottage Hospital Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children outside the Cottage Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The hospital opened on 15 November 1890 largely due to the patronage of Sir Michael Nairn. It was designed by the St Andrews architects J. Gillespie and Scott and they remained the architects for later additions. In 1895 plans were drawn up for a proposed addition of a circular ward and in 1914 the hospital minutes record Sir Michael Nairn’s intention of giving funds for a larger extension with a large new circular ward and a new operating room. This was the only cottage hospital to contain circular wards in Scotland, the larger Royal Alexander Infirmary at Paisley was the only other hospital in Scotland to possess circular wards



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