Tour Scotland early Winter travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, on ancestry visit to Kintillo, Perthshire. Claiming to be the oldest village in Scotland, Kintillo with some 18th century cottages has now been largely subsumed as a southern suburb of Bridge of Earn, 3 miles South of Perth. Immediately west is Kilgraston School built in 1793 by Francis Grant The Bridge of Earn Hospital was a health facility in Kintillo. The facility was designed as one of seven Emergency Hospital Service facilities and opened in 1939. It accommodated evacuees from other hospitals as well as some injured German Prisoners of War during the Second World War. Patients were transferred from the rehabilitation unit at Gleneagles Hotel in 1946 and from the Orthopaedic unit at Larbert in 1947. It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.and functioned as a large general hospital with general medical, general surgical, orthopaedic and plastic surgery units. Among the surgeons who worked there was Ian Scott Smillie who became an authority on knee surgery. The hospital closed in 1992 and the buildings were demolished in 2006.
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