Interior - view of private office

Description Interior - view of private office

Date c. 1909

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

Catalogue Number SC 701495

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 20519

Scope and Content Secretary's Room, Edinburgh Life Assurance Company Building, No 26 George Street and Nos 53-5 Hanover Street, Edinburgh (now part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) The Edinburgh Life Assurance Company Building, a commercial office on the corner of George Street and Hanover Street, was designed in 1908-9 in an Edwardian Renaissance style by the architect, John More Dick Peddie. Harry Bedford Lemere was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1909. This room, on the ground floor of the building, is lined with dark wooden panelling, and has a simple marble chimneypiece. The furnishings are typically Edwardian, with an elegant electric ceiling light fitting. The Edinburgh Life Assurance Company was founded in Edinburgh in 1823, and quickly expanded to open branch offices in Glasgow, London and Dublin and other major cities throughout Britain. In 1908 its accumulated funds amounted to £4,250,000, with an annual income of £500,000. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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