An appeal has gone out from the Edinburgh International Book Festival for people to contribute memories of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and its old home at Lauriston Place. They are planning a writing project, Words from the Wards, at this summer’s Book Festival because it is going to be based for the first time at the Royal Infirmary’s old site, which is now home to Edinburgh University’s Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Here are 29 fascinating photographs selected from the Evening News archives which may jog some memories of the hospital over the years, before it moved to its current site at Little France in 2003.
29. Under new management
The Royal Infirmary site in Lauriston Place in 2018 - developers were in charge, with part of the old hospital site taken over for the Quartermile development, including housing, offices, retail and leisure, and the main building destined to become home to Edinburgh University's new Edinburgh Futures Institute. | Johnston Press Photo: Lisa Ferguson