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