Interior. View of private office.

Description Interior. View of private office.

Date 1927

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 29590

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies B 64877, SC 701342

Scope and Content General Manager's Room, Union Bank of Scotland, Nos 110-20 St Vincent Street, Glasgow (now the Bank of Scotland) The Union Bank of Scotland, the head office of the bank in Glasgow, was designed in 1925-7 in an American Classical style by the architect, James Miller. This photograph of the office of the bank's general manager, Norman Hird, was taken in 1927 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This room, inspired by Hird's experience of American office interiors, is panelled in walnut with carved mouldings, and lit by a large metal-framed window. A portrait of the son of Sir William Forbes, founder of the banking company, Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Company, hangs over the marble fireplace. Sir William Forbes' son, also Sir William, became the senior partner in the family firm after the death of his father in 1806. His banking company amalgamated with the newly formed Glasgow Union Banking Company in 1838, a merger that was to become known as the Union Bank of Scotland in 1843. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 70

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