From the archives

Recently I was having a bit of a tidy up around the house when I came across my old black and white negatives from my days at university.  All of these were developed by myself, either in the uni's darkroom or back home in my parents bathroom.

This one was taken at Napier University's Craiglockhart campus which was used as a military psychiatric hospital between 1916 and 1919.  Poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon both received treatment here which was reserved for shellshocked officers only.

Subsequently the building was used as a convent and then a Catholic teacher training college before becoming part of Napier Polytechnic in 1986.

Craiglockhart campus - Ilford HP5 Plus (35mm neg crop)

© Ross Bull