Detail of entrance doorway with municipal coat of arms above.
BL 18581/B
Description Detail of entrance doorway with municipal coat of arms above.
Date 1904
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 18581/B
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Main Entrance, 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 the rapidly expanding and economically successful burgh of Clydebank. The building was photographed in 1904 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The entrance gate has a pediment carved with cherubs, two of which wear the winged hat of Mercury, the symbol of the skill of engineering, and support a shield bearing a sewing-machine and a ship, both symbols of the great industries of the burgh. Clydebank became a burgh in 1886, and quickly established two rapidly developing industries, the United States-based Singer sewing machine factory, and the shipyards along the River Clyde. Both industries remained enormously successful until the 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass negative
External Reference Box 41
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