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Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital

Photographic Gallery

All colour photographs courtesy of Mr. Norman Myles, Chairman, Friends of Methil Heritage

 

Front - 2009 Courtyard with unusual spiral turret on the east wing

 

Wemyss family coat of arms on pediment above entance

 

   
Symbols of the four home countries - Scotland, England, Ireland & Wales - situated above the four dormer windows

 

  West wing with lion rampant flanked by initials RG & EW  

 

East Wing - Wemyss coat of arms flanked by the date "19" & "08

 

Weather vane of Swan, centre piece of Wemyss coat of arms.  A miner, ship and winding engine all featured in earlier accounts of the hospital Pick and shovel as hands on the hospital clock

 

Entrance hall looking up to the clock tower with the fifth clock face on the inside.  The inscription round the base comes from a poem by Robert Browning (1812-1889) and reads: In memory of ... 

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
     Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.

(Third stanza from Asolando, published  1889

 

Bronze statue of a coal miner in the entrance hall

 

Bed dedication plaques

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