Letter from Dorothea Anderson
MS 443/1
Description Letter from Dorothea Anderson
Date 12/11/1984
Collection Papers of William Anderson, builder, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number MS 443/1
Category Manuscripts
Scope and Content Biographical details of father, born 1872. Took certificate at Heriot Watt where he also carved pipe. Employed on restoration of Hutton Castle involving arches. Brother born 1860 in trade as a joiner with whom he seems to have been in partnership, with yard in Easter Road. Put up Liberal Club, Innerleithen; houses at Bellvue; Primrose Street or Place; many houses in Leith; Mussleburgh; Brown Bros; Leith Docks; Kilns in Abbeyhill Crystal Factory; Shrubhill; repair work at Younger's Brewery; repair work at Foundry; Earlston Place; Willowbrae Avenue; Baronscourt; church hall Willowbrae Road. Goes bankrupt in mid-1930s through cheap workmanship flooding market.
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