to burials in 1870. Some of the memorials, inscribed in Hebrew, show up to four generations of some families buried here. Also in Sciennes House Place is the Old Braid Fire Station, a Category C listed building which was designed in 1885 by Robert Morham, the City Architect. This was one of four fire stations established in the 1820s by Edinburgh's first firemaster James Braidwood. It is now an architect's office. Robert Morham also designed, in 1884, the former 'A' Division Police Station on the corner of Causewayside. This is a four-storey building in the Scottish Baronial style. It closed in the early 1980s and has since been converted to flats. The building stands opposite the shop of the antique dealer and police historian T W Archibald who wrote a history of the Lothians and Borders Police. The former Royal Hospital for Sick Children (commonly referred to as the Sick Kids) is an imposing neo-Jacobean building, designed by George Washington Browne. It operated at its site in Sciennes Road from 1895 to 2021. It is a listed building with murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair in its mortuary chapel. In 2017, the hospital was due to move to Little France, but this was delayed because of technical and financial problems. In February 2019, planning permission was given to the Downing Group to convert the main hospital building to 126 residential units and to replace other buildings on the site with student flats. The hospital finally closed on 23 March 2021 when its facilities moved to the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People at Little France. The Downing Group started work on the redevelopment of the site in June 2021. Sciennes Primary School stands next to the former hospital. It was designed in 1889 by Robert Wilson, the architect for the Edinburgh Board of Education, and opened in 1892. Sylvan House is an 18th century Category B listed residential building situated behind a row of Victorian tenements in Sylvan Place. In the 1790s, it was the summer home of Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University. A plaque commemorating Black's occupancy was unveiled in 1991. Notable residents Duncan Napier (1831–1921), botanist and herbalist, lived at 8 Gladstone Terrace and later at 5 Sciennes Gardens (at the time, the house was known as Ruby Villa). Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and short-story writer, noted for his Sherlock Holmes stories, lived