Publication Account

Date 2009

Event ID 1019758

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Isabella Elder’s Elder Cottage Hospital on Drumoyne Road was built in 1910–12, and a contemporary nurses’ home lies opposite (figs 5.40 & 5.41; McAlpine 1997, 170–3; Williamson et al 1990, 593–4). The architecture of each has a domestic theme, and the hospital was originally intended as a maternity home. It opened as a general hospital, however, with medical and surgical beds and an operating theatre. More recently, until final closure in 1987, it was used for convalescing patients from the Southern General.

Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Govan: Archaeology and Development’ (2009).