Glasgow, 2a Drumoyne Drive, Elder Cottage Hospital, Nurses' Home
Hospital (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 2a Drumoyne Drive, Elder Cottage Hospital, Nurses' Home
Classification Hospital (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Langlands Road; Elder Cottage Hospital, West Block
Canmore ID 248957
Site Number NS56NW 135.01
NGR NS 54376 65497
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/248957
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Publication Account (2009)
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).
