Photographs of wartime hospital at Gleneagles Hotel

This material is held atUniversity of Glasgow Archive Services

  • Reference
    • GB 248 DC 057/236
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1939-1945
  • Physical Description

Scope and Content

This file contains the following photos:

  • Photo of Nurse serving wounded men round a table soup plates;
  • Cartoon of Dr Ferguson- top goal scorer. Auchterarder Academicals ;
  • Cartoon of female juggling, lifting weights and balancing a bottle. Titled Good Resolutions;
  • Cartoon of a spectacled man pouring ether on a mask over a patient. Speech bubble: " Oh Jings! ". Titled Pouring Oil on troubled waters;
  • Cartoon titled Problem picture, morning exercises Two doors with speech bubbles coming from them;
  • Cartoon of Bobby the Dog;
  • Cartoon of a man on a bike. Titled The urgent call, portrait of a surgeon;
  • Photograph of patients in beds with a nurse attending a seated man;
  • Photograph of patients in beds: 3 patients, one (far left) with man in white coat sitting on the end of his bed;
  • Photograph of empty room (same room as in other photos in the file);
  • Photograph of pharmacy or store room: cabinet and shelf of bottles and two figures working, a male and a female;
  • Photograph of an outdoor snowy scene (outside in the hospital grounds? ). Two figures walking away from camera, 5 in distance descending some steps towards the camera;
  • Photograph of a semi-circular/ rounded sweep of neat, empty beds, with aisle of beds in the middle;
  • Photograph of nurses and soldiers assembled at entrance and a car. A soldier shaking hands with a nurse (3 nurses, 8 men);
  • Photograph of room with large bay window, 4 beds with patients in tow of them, one man with bandaged eye sits by another's bed. A nurse attends them. A man in the centre, under the window, sits at a desk, facing the camera;
  • Photograph of a room with large bay window, tables, chairs, and armchairs. Two nurses attend 8 men who are in various attitudes of repose, reading or playing games;
  • Photograph of two men on stretchers (one on trolley, one on floor) and 8 soldiers. In a hallway with a clear sign pointing left to the medical superintendent's office ;
  • Photograph of the same scene as above, though man who was on the floor, now on trolley and stretchered men are surrounded by the soldiers;
  • Photograph outside the hospital. Two St Andrews ambulances are at the entrance, men are taking wounded on stretchers inside. Snow on the grass;
  • Photograph of two St Andrews ambulances driving away from camera, out of the gates. Snow on the grass;
  • Photograph of two nurses making tea and toast in the kitchen;
  • Duplicate photograph of ambulance;
  • Photograph of rows of empty, neat beds in an ornate room;
  • Photograph of a surgery room, an operating bed/table is the focus, a man seen in the small mirror above the sink (unclear picture);
  • Photograph of an empty bed in the middle of an empty looking room. Medical equipment is over and around the bed;
  • Photograph of smallish room with empty beds, 3 in shot, and fireplace;
  • Photograph of four people, two females in between two spectacled males.