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Edington Cottage Hospital, North Berwick

Dedicated to: 
Erected by: 
Bequeathed by Miss Elizabeth Edington
Date: 
June 1912
Location:
Edington Cottage Hospital
54 St Baldred's Road
North Berwick, EH39 4PU
Images: 
Edington Cottage Hospital
Additional information: 

Originally opened as Edington Home; a respite home, particularly for mothers taking time out from looking after their children. It became known around the town as 'The Home of Tired Mothers'. It now provides respite, palliative and terminal care, as well as a minor injuries unit.

Category B Listed Building Category, 26 May 1988

Janet Courtney Hostel

Dedicated to: 
Location:
Janet Courtney Hostel
Lovers Loan
Lerwick, ZE1 0BA
Images: 
Janet Courtney Hostel, Lerwick, Shetland
Additional information: 

Halls of Residence on the Shetland Mainland for students, from other Shetland Islands, attending Anderson High School.

Maggie Dickson's Pub

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

Wall Board:

Maggie Dickson's Story

In 1723 Margaret Dickson, a fish hawker in Edinburgh, left town to visit relatives after being deserted by her husband.

On the way south she stopped off n Kelso at an Inn to break the journey. She stayed a while and worked in return for her board and lodgings. While she was there, Maggie formed a relationship wth the landlady's son and fell pregnant with his child.

This was not n her contract of employment so she concealed the fact that she was expectng and in tme the child was born prematurely. When the baby died a few days later, she was determined to throw the body into the River Tweed. Losing her nerve, she laid the baby at the water's edge.

The body was discoverd later that day and traced back to Maggie. Arrested and tried under the 1690 Concealment of Pregnancy Act, she was sentenced to be hanged n the Grassmarket Ednburgh on 2nd September 1724.

Maggie was hanged and after her death was pronounced, the body was taken to Musselburgh for burial. On the way there, the funeral heard noises from Maggie's coffin, On opening the coffin they found Maggie to be very much alive.

Recovering to full health, she was allowed to live as it was seen to be God's will that she survive. Living the rest of her days in Edinburgh she was known by all as the celebrated 'Half-Hangit Maggie'

Location:
Maggie Dickson's Pub
92 Grassmarket
Edinburgh, EH1 2JR
Images: 
Maggie Dickson's Pub
Maggie Dickson's Pub

Queen Margaret's School, Ayr

Dedicated to: 
Date: 
1976, to replace an earlier school of the same name.
Location:
Queen Margaret's School
Dalmellington Road
Ayr, KA7 3TL

St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

None

Erected by: 
Father John Comper
Date: 
Consecrated 1879
Location:
St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church
Gallowgate
Aberdeen, AB25 1EA
Images: 
Stained glass from St Margaret's Episcopal church
Stained glass from St Margaret's Episcopal church
Additional information: 

Website-http://www.stmargaretsgallowgate.org.uk/

Queen Mother Building, University of Dundee

Inscription: 

Queen Mother Building
School of Computing

Location:
School of Computing
Perth Road
Dundee, DD1 4HN
Images: 
Building name
Building name
Building name

Hannah Maclure Centre

Dedicated to: 
Location:
Top floor, Abertay Student Centre
1-3 Bell Street
Dundee, DD1 1HP
Images: 
Entrance to Hannah Maclure centre
Entrance to Hannah Maclure centre
Additional information: 

The Hannah Maclure Centre has a website:
http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk/index.html

Margaret Harris Building

Dedicated to: 
Date: 
1886-1890
Material: 
Stone
Location:
Euclid Crescent
Euclid Crescent
Dundee, DD1 1HU
Images: 
Name plaque on Margaret Harris Building
Name plaque on Margaret Harris Building

Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE OPENING
THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION
THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH
BY
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ALEXANDRA
ON 1ST OCTOBER, 1969

Erected by: 
National Health Service
Location:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
45 Chalmers Street
Edinburgh, EH3 9HA
Images: 
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion

Lady Stair's House, now the Writer's Museum

Dedicated to: 
Erected by: 
Originally built by her Grandfather Sir William Gray of Pittendrum in 1622
Date: 
renamed Lady Stair's House after 1719
Material: 
stone
Location:
Makars' Court (through Lady Stair's Close from the Lawnmarket)
Lawnmarket, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 2PA
Images: 
Lady Stair's House (Writer's Museum)
Lady Stair's House (Writer's Museum)
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