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Greenhouses -view from SE Digital image of E 3960 cn

SC 776769

Description Greenhouses -view from SE Digital image of E 3960 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776769

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glasshouses, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus These large wooden-framed Victorian glasshouses, now fallen into disrepair, probably date from the late 19th century. They were constructed on brick foundations and have elegant finials at either end of the roof ridge. They were probably heated by a system of hot water pipes, and were used to provide the asylum with a varied supply of fruit, such as tomatoes, melons, cucumbers and even pineapples and grapes. Most patients were encouraged to work and become engaged in useful occupations around the hospital. Male patients were employed as tailors, shoemakers, joiners, bakers and gardeners, and female patients were employed in the kitchens, the laundry and in dressmaking. The asylum developed as a self-contained, self-sufficient community that supported each of its members and was quick to use the talent of an individual to the benefit of the general community. Sunnyside Royal Hospital, designed by the architect, William Lambie Moffatt (1808-82), was built in 1855-7 on a hillside site 6km north of Montrose to replace the old Royal Asylum in the town. The new site was further developed in 1888-91 when a hospital block, designed by the architects, Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, was built to the north-west of the main building, and a large villa, Carnegie Lodge, designed by the Aberdeen architect, William Kelly (c.1861-1944), was added to house private patients. Another two villas, Howden Villa and North Esk Villa, were built in the early 1900s to provide accommodation for pauper patients, and a nurses' home was constructed in 1935. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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