View of entrance facade
BL 18582
Description View of entrance facade
Date 1904
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 18582
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clydebank Municipal Buildings, No 49 Dumbarton Road, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire Clydebank Municipal Buildings were designed in 1900-2 by James Miller as a civic monument for an expanding burgh with a shipbuilding industry at its peak. The building was photographed in 1904 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The building is Baroque in style, and dominated by a corner tower rising to an open cupola housing a carillon of bells. It is adorned by the figure of the Roman god, Mercury, who represents the skill of engineering, an appropriate symbol for the area. In the early 20th century, the Clydebank shipyards launched one in four of the world's ships. John Brown's yard built steam-engined battleships and cruisers for the Admiralty, as well as famous cruise liners such as the Lusitania, for Cunard shipping. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass negative
External Reference Box 41
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