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PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM Buff cloth cover Amateur Album including snapshots of Edinburgh, Peebles, Shandon, Glasgow and other places with trains, bridges and ships. This alb ...

PA 52

Description PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM Buff cloth cover Amateur Album including snapshots of Edinburgh, Peebles, Shandon, Glasgow and other places with trains, bridges and ships. This album contains a very large number of family photographs with little to identify them. There are, however, snaps of the following: "Aunt Maggie's grave" - Margaret Anne Farquhar, wife of Alexander Forbes, d. 22 October 1925 aged 45 "Granda and Grannie's stone" erected by family in memory of Frank Forbes d. 23 July 1924 aged 77, also his wife Susan Ironside d. 20 June 1928 aged 78. From internal evidence it seems possible that the album belonged to a Rev. Cameron and his wife. Many of the snaps are of Boys Brigade and St George's Sunday School outings 1929-34 and St George's Players 1937; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh pageants; Heriots School sports 1929; Round Table ramble 1933; Territorial Review 7 May 1932 showing Lord High Commissioner Sir Iain Colquhoun, Major ACH Hope, Royal Lancers and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders on parade. There is a group photograph taken at Musselburgh Orphanage 1931 and snaps of the Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, of 1938; also "Drink more milk" floats at a pageant in 1930 (Co-op lorry and Dempster's Dairy van). Topographical views include Tulliechettle churchyard; Sma' Glen; churches at Kyleakin, Auchterarder, Balquhidder and Lochearnhead, and the shop of J Macpherson, chemist, Auchterarder; a paddle steamer at Arrochar; and the Beheading Stone, Stirling. Also included are Scotland Place, South pier and harbour and the Golf View Hotel, Nairn, and snaps of A Ross; PC Mennie on motor bike; and "WR", a message boy with bicycle belonging to Cooper's, all at Nairn. The bottle works at Pettycur is shown, also the steel houses at Granton; Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh and 80 Guild Street, Aberdeen and there are five photographs of Aberdeen Fish Market. See also PA167, which seems to have belonged to the same family.

Date 1927 to 1939

Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.

Catalogue Number PA 52

Category All Other

Copies PA 52/23/5, PA 52/65, PA 52/66, PA 52/6/2, PA 52/20/2, PA 52/26V/7, PA 52/29V/4, PA 52/30/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/399503

Collection Hierarchy - Batch Level

Collection Level (551 87) General Collection. Photograph Albums.

> Batch Level (PA 52) PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM Buff cloth cover Amateur Album including snapshots of Edinburgh, Peebles, Shandon, Glasgow and other places with trains, bridges and ships. This album contains a very large number of famil

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 1113879 View of A3 4-6-2 locomotive 2580 'Shotover' pulling the 'Flying Scotsman' service out of Waverley Station. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM. Page 17. c. 1928 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 240497 View of Thurlow Road, Monklands, Nairn c. 1932 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/33V/1 General view of Glenfinnan Viaduct fron the train. c. 1936 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/33V/7 Arch of bridge, Titled: 'Railway Bridge at Morar' c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/33V/8 General view of bridge, Titled: 'Railway Bridge at Morar' c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/33V/2 View of train leaving station, Titled:. 'At Morar Station' c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/33V/9 General view of station and platforms c. 1936 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/33V/10 Titled: 'Fort William Station.' c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/56/5 View of entrance to station building, Fort William c. 1936 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/34/4 General view of Union Road with Station Hotel on the left, and the Grand Hotel on the right, Fort William Photograph Album 52 Snapshot, Empire Exhibition Album c. 1936 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/23/5 View of Thurlow Road, Monklands, Nairn c. 1932 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/30/5 View from North East of Kinghorn, Alexander III Monument'. c. 1932 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/30/7 Page 52/7 View from North West, snapshot insc. 'Kinghorn, Alexander III Monument' Photograph Album No.52, Empire Exhibition Album c. 1932 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/30/10 General harbour view Kinghorn c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/38/7 Two views of the scenic railway, Empire Exhibition, 1938 1938 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/65 Ten photographs showing the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow including views from the Tower, the Crazy House, Panatolic Jets, model railway and the Royal Fountain by night. 1938 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/66 Page 66 Ten assorted views of the Empire Exhibition including views of the Atlantic Restaurant, Palace of Engineering, Panatolic Jets, Canadian Pavilion and other general views. Photograph Album 52, The Empire Exhibition Album 1938 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/31V/10 General view of Dyce, Bacon Factory, Aberdeen PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO. 52: THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION ALBUM c. 1932 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/32/2 General view of Old Inn, Dyce, Aberdeen c. 1935 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/32/3 General view of Dyce Aerodrome, Aberdeen c. 1938 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/29V/8 General view of Aberdeen fish market. c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/30/1 Aberdeen, Fish Market. c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/30/2 Fisherman unloading at Aberdeen Fish Market. c. 1929 Item Level
Print Room PA 52/30/3 Aberdeen, Fish Market. Fishermen's transport waiting at Fish Market. c. 1935 Item Level

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