Gallowhill House, Paisley, view of boudoir.
SC 700525
Description Gallowhill House, Paisley, view of boudoir.
Date 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 700525
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 10128
Scope and Content Boudoir, Gallowhill House, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Gallowhill House, a large mansion designed in 1867 by the Glasgow architects, James Salmon & Son, was the home of Peter Kerr of Clark & Company, a large firm of Paisley threadmakers. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1890. The walls of the room are panelled to door height with a heavily embossed paper in an intricate pattern of flowers and fruit above. The oriel window (right) is hung with wooden slatted Venetian blinds, and the fireplace, containing a gas fire, has an overmantel with display shelves lined with tasselled material. Gas fires were introduced late in the Victorian period. Manufacturers were quick to point out their labour-saving advantages: no coals to carry, no ash to empty and no chimneys to clean. However, they were expensive to run, tended to blow out and depended on a regular and reliable supply of gas. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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