Basic Site Details
| Name: | Mackinnon Memorial Hospital |
| Town, district or village: | Broadfield |
| Island: | Skye |
| City or county: | Inverness-shire |
| Country: | Scotland |
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| Notes: | Founded as a memorial to Rev Donald Mackinnon, Minister of the parish, who died in 1888. Present hospital largely dates from 1963. |
Building Type Classification
| The building is classified under the following categories: | |||
| Classification | Original classification? | Notes | |
 | Hospital | ||
Events
| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | ||||
| From | To | Event type | Notes | |
| 1914 | Opened | ||
| October 1951 | Proposed | The new General Hospital which is to be erected by the Northern regional Hospital Board will be built on a Broadford site | |
| 15 April 1960 | Proposed | extension - not started as of 1 Dec 1959; £157,000 est. expenditure to complete work per Builder p747 | |
| 1 December 1960 | Plans prepared, construction not yet begun | for extension to hospital; £157,000 (total estimated cost), £10,000 (probable expenditure to March 31, 1961), £56,000 (estimated expenditure in 1961-62) per Builder 14 April 1961 p721 | |
People
Design and Construction
| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | ||||||
| Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | |
| William Laidlaw Carruthers | 1914 | ||||
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this building: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | ||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Builder | 26 October 1951 | p570 | ||
| Builder | 15 April 1960 | 'The Week in Parliament: The Hospital Building Programme' pp746-747; summarizes expenditure on hospital buildings as published in 1960-61 Civil Estimates for the National Health Service of England, Wales and Scotland, published on March 29; 17 Scottish schemes already in progress as of 1 Dec 1959, 8 works not started in Dec are reported in Builder article | ||
| Builder | 14 April 1961 | 'Civil Estimates, 1961-62: Health Estimates, The Scottish Estimates' p721 | ||