Hello Allan and Listers, Thanks for posting this site > http://www.axissolutions.co.uk/steilshistory.htm It was very interesting to read about Craiglockhart Poorhouse. I had no idea there had been a 'poorhoose' there! As a child, Glenlockhart Road was one of our 'haunts', we'd spend hours climbing Craiglockhart Hill on the right (walking from Colinton Road), the golfcourse was on the hill on the left. My grandfather spent the last year of his life at the 'Glenlockhart Old People's Home' ( as we called it) in 1960, he died in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in July 1961 ( well I remember that ghastly old place!) At the corner of Colinton Road and Glenlockhart Road the big old building shrouded by huge trees and a winding driveway was, what we knew as, 'The Convent' ( now Napier University, I believe). Nuns would walk sedately all the way down Craglockhart Avenue in their heavy black habits ( scaring the life out of me sometimes) their faces barely visible behind the vales and hoods! Thanks for jogging my memory! Cheers from NZ, Maureen ANDERSON LAWSON POOL in Liberton Gladsmuir Leith & Edinburgh > Many thanks to all who have replied to my queries about 144 Comiston Road and 64 Canongate. > > It's now confirmed that 64 Canongate was (and perhaps still is?) Queensberry House. > > My information on the Comiston Road address being a poorhouse was got by entering the address in Google. If you enter "poorhouse comiston" you get a few more hits. More than that I don't yet know. > > The Craiglockhart poorhouse, though, was a different place - originally in Poorhouse Road, later changed to Glenlockhart Road; see > > http://www.axissolutions.co.uk/steilshistory.htm > > and > > http://www.ebs.hw.ac.uk/STREETS/part2/g.htm > > I too would like to know if they kept any records that are still available. Perhaps the Lothian Health Authority might have some. Anybody know? > > Cheers > > Alan >