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James Beattie's House
362 This house stood in Crown Court at 36 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen. It had an internal stone stair and some of the rooms were oak panelled. James Beattie was born in 1735 in Laurencekirk and in 1760 he was appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College. He died at this house on 18th August 1803 and was buried in St. Nicholas Churchyard.
His house became the home of an advocate, but in the 1850s and 60s it was used by the Aberdeen General Dispensary, lying in an vaccine institution which supplied advice and medicines to the sick and poor. In more recent times, the area behind the Upperkirkgate was cleared and redeveloped as the Bon-Accord Shopping Centre.
Correspondent Ed Fowler suggests that the items that can be seen in front of the house are likely early Victorian laundry mangles. This would account for the trail of water draining from its position. The tarpaulin that is visible would have been to protect the wooden rollers and gears from the elements. The drying area was probably in the garden beyond the Dispensary building, to the north, as no improvised window drying jibs are visible. Aberdeen Maternity Hospital
286 A drawing of the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital on Castle Terrace. The image features on the front cover of the hospital's annual reports prior to its move to new premises at Foresterhill in 1937.
Aberdeen Local Studies hold annual reports for the hospital from 1912 to 1947. In 1912 the hospital acquired its own Board of Management.
Instituted in 1893, the Maternity Hospital moved to Castle Terrace in 1900 after its buildings in Barnet's Close, Guestrow, part of the General Dispensary, Vaccine and Lying-in Institution, became inadequate. The new location in Castle Terrace was an old bank building adjoining the Children's Hospital.
Most of the services relocated to Foresterhill in 1937 as part of the Joint Hospital Scheme, but the antenatal clinic remained at Castle Terrace until a new antenatal annexe was built at the new site in 1941.
The illustration is signed A.J.M. |