Now the site of a sheltered housing block, the old City Poorhouse East Lodge at 144 Comiston Road spent its final years lying derelict and abandoned, with its former purpose all but forgotten.
The Edinburgh City Poorhouse, also known as Craiglockhart Poorhouse, opened in 1870 to provide a "comfortable home for the aged and poor", as well as operating as a reformatory for "the dissipated, the improvident, and the vicious".
Situated adjacent to the City Hospital for infectious diseases, the poorhouse became Greenlea old people's home after the Second World War and has since been converted into apartments - yet its Victorian era legacy remains.
