Interior. View of banking hall.

Description Interior. View of banking hall.

Date 1927

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

Catalogue Number SC 701337

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29585

Scope and Content Foyer, 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 Glasgow architect, James Miller. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1927. The foyer is lined to ceiling height with marble, and has a marble floor laid in a geometric pattern with contrasting coloured bands. Built into the stairwell is an electric elevator, with decorative glass doors and metal casing, and a balcony with an elegant metal grille and two flamboyant electric torchères. The first passenger elevator was designed in the United States by Elisha Otis, and installed in a New York store in 1856. The electric motor was introduced into elevator construction in 1880 by Werner von Siemens, and by 1900 electric elevators were capable of serving many of New York's tallest buildings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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