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 SC 701343

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29591

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. It is simply furnished with a walnut desk (and a contemporary telephone), and hung with a painting of Sir William Forbes by the artist, Sir Henry Raeburn. Sir William Forbes was the senior partner in the Edinburgh banking company, Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Company, one of five companies that amalgamated with the newly formed Glasgow Union Banking Company in 1838. The resulting merger became known as the Union Bank of Scotland in 1843. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 70

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