Interior. View of board room.

Description Interior. View of board room.

Date 1927

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

Catalogue Number SC 701345

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29593

Scope and Content Board 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 Glasgow architect, James Miller. This photograph of the board room was taken in 1927 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The room, lined with moulded panels of Austrian oak, has fluted Ionic pilasters flanking the chimneypiece, and is lit by a large metal-framed window. Inspired by the design of American office interiors, it is minimally furnished with a longcase clock, and a board table and chairs with cabriole legs. The board had eleven members, including the bank's general manager (Norman Hird), an accountant, a lawyer, an actuary, a banker and several leading Scottish figures of whom four were directors of some of Glasgow's famous manufacturing and engineering industries. The chairman was the Duke of Atholl. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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