This sunny scene shows West Nile Street in March 1947. A tram car, a few cars and a horse and cart are
all that are using the road. On the right is the James Robertson factory, which sold radios and cycles
HUNDREDS of patients were recently transferred to Glasgow’s new £842million hospital in Govan, named the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Next to the adult site is the new Royal Hospital For Children, which has its own separate identity and entrance.
But the moving of patients from the Yorkhill Hospital was not the first time children had been forced to decant.
In January 1966 youngsters had to go to the Western District Hospital commonly knowned as Oakbank – in Possil Road after structural defects in concrete and steel girders were found at Yorkhill.
Thirty children were transferred by ambulance
and three in incubators, with another 30 children moving the next day. The move was supervised by Dr Hugh Park, medical superintendent, and the matron Miss Olive Hulme, pictured above.
The indications were that
a new Yorkhill Hospital would be needed at an estimated cost of £3million and that proved to be the case.
Work started to rebuild on the Yorkhill site and the new hospital opened in October 1971. Oakbank closed the same year.
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