A stark photograph shows the moment an Edinburgh Victorian building is demolished as part of the former Sick Kids Hospital redevelopment.
As the hospital settles into its new home at Little France, the former building is being transformed into luxury apartments and student flats at the Meadows.
The image shows the rear of the building, which dates back more than 100 years, being torn down by diggers on Wednesday.
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At the end of August, work began on the infamous building, which was the home of the Sick Kids for 161 years and treated around 50,000 ill children every year and became an iconic part of the city's architecture.
A mixture of both student accommodation and other homes are planned for the site, and it seems the victim of this is some of Edinburgh's oldest buildings.
The home that is soon to be demolished is believed to have been the home of William Pairman, an Edinburgh grocery merchant, who was the first proud owner of the property.
In 2017, depsite a public a community buy-out bid, NHS Lothian handed over the former hospital to Liverpool-based developers Downing, who bought it for a reported £20 million.
The site covers four acres and was situated near the popular Meadows area.
The main hospital building has been designed to be retained and used as centrepiece of the new scheme and will be redeveloped as a mixture of one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments.
