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W S Atkins

551 332

Description W S Atkins

Collection W S Atkins

Catalogue Number 551 332

Category All Other

Scope and Content A very large collection of plans and photographs for hospitals throughout Scotland, including plans of country houses proposed to be requisitioned. Among these are: Abercairney House, Blair Castle and Scone Palace. The hospital drawings include some nineteenth and early twentieth century drawings, but are mainly post-war and include Arbroath Infirmary, Baldovan Asylum and the King's Cross Hospital, Ninewells, and the Royal Infirmary, Dundee; East Fortune Hospital; the Astley Ainsley Hospital, the City Hospital, the Eastern General, the Elsie Inglis Hospital, Gogarburn House, Leith Hospital, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, the Royal Infirmary and the Western General, Edinburgh; Forfar Infirmary, Wester Fordel House, Glenfarg; Roodlands Hospital, Haddington; Inch Hospital, Kelso; Linlithgow Poors' House and St Michael's Hospital, Linlithgow; Edenhall Hospital, Musselburgh; Tweed Green Nursing Home and the War Memorial Hospital, Peebles; the Murray Royal Hospital, Perth, etc. The photographic albums record new hospital construction in Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy during the 1950s, including designs, models, site and construction photographs, wards, operating theatres, an opening by the Princess Royal, etc, by various photographers, including Henk Snoek and A L Hunter. A scrapbook dated August 1951records the current activities of the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board. A series of wallets contain construction progress photographs at individual hospitals, mainly 1950s. Two volumes of slides in wallets of later progress photographs.

Archive History Presented by Mr McDowall, W S Atkins Healthcare, on the closure of the Edinburgh Office.

System of Arrangement This collection has been only partially catalogued.

Accruals No further accruals are expected.

Accession Number 1995/45

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1176631

Collection Hierarchy - Collection Level

Collection Level (551 332) W S Atkins

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
All Other 551 332/1 Photograph albums in the W S Atkins Collection Sub-Group Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2171083 Photographic copy of foundation plan of phase 1 block. Insc: 'B', 'Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy'. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2171089 Photographic copy of site plan. Insc: 'South Eastern Regional Hospital Board, Scotland', 'Regional Architects Division 18 Rothesay Terrace Edinburgh', 'Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy', 'General Site Plan', 'June '70', 'Drawing number 'RA/9/2/DV.1'. 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2171090 Photographic copy of theatre floor plan. Insc: 'Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy', 'Theatre Floor Plan'. 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2591758 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2591759 View of hospital block with verandah. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2591760 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2591761 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2591762 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593466 View of walkway. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593467 View of hospital block. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593468 View of hospital block entrance. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593469 General view of hospital block. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593470 General view of garage block. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593471 General view of maternity blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593472 View of hospital block. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593473 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593474 General view of hospital block. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593475 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593476 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593477 General view of hospital block. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593478 General view of hospital blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593479 View of residential blocks. c. 1955 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2593480 View of residential blocks. c. 1955 Item Level

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