Sites and Monument Record: Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary (SMR 1565)

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hospital
building
war memorial

Site history notes

In 1920 the Managers of the Falkirk Infirmary decided that a new site was required. There followed a massive fund-raising exercise and the Good Samaritan became the symbol of the campaign. The new hospital was designed by WJ Gibson with 120 beds, to be increased to 200 as required. It had Maternity and Isolation Blocks and was intended to have a Nurses Home.
The Duchess of Montrose cut the first sod at Gartcows on 10 November 1926 with funds standing at £90,000. In February 1931 the patients were moved from the old building in Thornhill Road to the new one. Gartcows House was used as the Nurses Home. On 18 January 1932 Prince George officially opened the new hospital, now named "The Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary".
In 1939 nine wooden huts were erected as wards for military casualties in the forthcoming conflict. After the war, in 1947, the hospital became part of the national Health Service.
1953 opening of X-ray facility in a reconstructed ward1953 Nurses Home finally completed.
1966 new Block and operating theatres.
1973 outpatients building opened with accident and emergency department.
1987 Maternity & Geriatric Unit opened and named the Windsor Unit. In the same year a new College of Nursing & Midwifery at the hospital replaced facilities at the Callendar Park College of Education.
2010 new hospital opened in Larbert and the Windsor Unit demolished shortly thereafter.

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NS 883 797

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