Interior - view of offices
SC 701499
Description Interior - view of offices
Date c. 1909
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 701499
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20515
Scope and Content Business Hall, 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. The business hall has a compartmentalised ceiling with a cornice of unornamented modillions, and four Roman Doric columns of pavanazzo marble supporting the upper floor of the building. The ledger clerks' desks are lit with electric light fittings that would not look unfashionable today. The Edinburgh Life Assurance Company, founded in 1823, quickly expanded with the opening of offices in Glasgow (1824), London (1837) and other major cities throughout Britain. Initially, however, only members of the legal, accounting or banking professions were eligible to apply for life insurance. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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