My Life in Pictures

By fotoflingscot

The East Suffolk Road Hostels

A walk round Newington reveals this oasis that I'd never come across before.  I believe this is the former East Suffolk Road Hostels at Newington, south Edinburgh which were the first purpose built residences developed exclusively for women students in Scotland.
The Moray House College website reveals "At the turn of the 20th century there was only limited provision for accommodating the increasing number of female students attending Edinburgh University, Edinburgh Art College and the Edinburgh Provincial Training College (Moray House).
The possibility of providing additional hostels for women students was first raised as early as 1906. Discussions were widened in 1911 and included the involvement of the Carnegie Universities Trust. It was agreed that one large scheme was preferable to a number of smaller hostels.
The first phase of building began in 1913 with further building through the 1920s and the Second World War, to becoming Moray House's Newington Campus and their eventual closure in 1997."
I understand that the site was re-developed into private housing.

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