General view of Hotel from Leonard Street
BL 10981
Description General view of Hotel from Leonard Street
Date 1891
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 10981
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies B 64148, B 77546, SC 682931
Scope and Content Station Hotel, Leonard Street, Perth The Station Hotel, designed by Andrew Heiton Junior, stood beside Perth station at the 'Gateway to the Highlands'. It was built jointly by three railway companies in 1888, and photographed in 1891 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The hotel was designed in a Flemish Gothic style, perhaps as an allusion to the lowland start of the journey north. The entrance was set asymmetrically next to the station, and a circular conical-roofed turret placed in the south-east angle. Perth Station's strategic position made it a marshalling point for the Highland, Caledonian and North British railways. The height of its seasonal railway traffic was the rush north for the 'Glorious Twelfth', the first day of the grouse shooting season. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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