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David McLean

Edinburgh's lost maternity hospital where 'half of the city' was born

Named in honour of one of the city's greatest medical practitioners of all time, the remarkable Dr Elsie Inglis, the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital was founded in Abbeyhill in 1925.

Situated in lush surroundings on the fringes of Holyrood Park, the maternity hospital was for decades the perfect place for wee ones to first experience the world.

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