Old Photograph King's Cross Hospital Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of King's Cross Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. King's Cross opened in November 1889 at a site in Clepington Road, Dundee. It was the city's first permanent fever hospital and was built by Dundee Town Council to treat patients suffering from infectious diseases, including typhus, diphtheria and smallpox. Until the late 1860s, such patients had usually been admitted to Dundee Royal Infirmary, although a temporary fever hospital had been set up in a converted building in Lower Union Street during the 1832 cholera outbreak. At the creation of the National Health Service in 1948, King's Cross came under the management of the new Eastern Regional Hospital Board. This board decided to centralise the management of infectious disease at King's Cross, resulting in the closure the former fever hospitals in Perth, Perthshire and in Forfar and Arbroath in Angus Region. Since the 1990s most of the hospital's services have been transferred to Ninewells Hospital. King's Cross now serves as the administrative headquarters of NHS Tayside.



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Old Photograph Passenger Bus Odeon Cinema Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a passenger bus outside the Odeon Cinema in Dundee, Scotland. Odeon is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway. The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England, although initially called " Picture House ". The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930.



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Old Photograph Baxter Park Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of men sitting in Baxter Park in Dundee, Scotland. The Scottish park laid out in 1863, a gift to the people of Dundee from linen manufacturer Sir David Baxter and his sisters Eleanor and Mary Ann. The park was designed by Victorian landscape architect Sir Joseph Paxton, one time gardener to the Dukes of Devonshire and designer of the Crystal Palace in London, England.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Mary Buick Watson Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Mary Buick Watson, gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. Mary Buick of Dundee became the 2nd wife of local fisherman Thomas Watson. In 1799 Thomas was taken by a press gang, and Mary ran after them and asked them to take her too. The pair of them served aboard HMS Ardent, and during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, as the Ardent was being shelled by the Danish shore batteries, Mary Watson Buick went into labour and gave birth to their first child, a girl called Mary. Little Mary Watson lived to be 90, dying in 1891. The day after the Battle of Copenhagen, Thomas Watson, and his wife and child, were transferred to HMS Bellona, and a year or so later Thomas was discharged at Spithead and made his way home to Cellardyke, where he used his prize money to build a house by the harbour, now 7 Shore Street, and open an ale and pie shop.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video James Muir Gourlay Seaman Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the James Muir Gourlay, Seaman, gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. Erected by Alexander and Mary Gourlay in Loving Memory Of Their Son, James Muir Gourlay, Seaman Royal Navy Reserves, of H.M.S. Western Queen, who died at Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, England on 15th November 1918, Aged 23 Years. Also their daughter Kate Wilson Gourlay who died 21st June 1898, Aged 10 1/2 years, and their son, Wilson Gourlay, who died 30th March 1900, aged 6 months. The above Mary Muir Gourlay who died 6th February 1929 aged 69 years. And the above Alexander Gourlay who died 11th February 1929, Aged 70 Years. Also their other children, George died 5th September 1964, aged 80; Agnes who died 21st May 1968, Aged 82; John who died 26th August 1961, aged 71. Alex who died 7th March 1959, aged 67; David who died 12th August 1950, Aged 56; Mary who died 12th October 1967, aged 70, Kate who died 24th February 1984, aged 82, Alexander Gourlay, FSA Scot, born 15th of May 1912, died 13th July 2008, son of Georgre. Until We Meet Again.

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