Interior - view of enquiries office

Description Interior - view of enquiries office

Date c. 1909

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

Catalogue Number SC 701500

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 20514

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, a large public office on the ground floor, has four Roman Doric columns of pavanazzo marble supporting the upper floor of the building, and a marble floor laid in bold geometric patterns. The room, partially lit from above, largely depends on natural light from its Hanover Street window (left). The Edinburgh Life Assurance Company was founded in 1823 for 'the purpose of making or effecting assurances on the life or lives of any person or persons'. Its transactions involved life assurance, endowment and annuity policies, and in 1908 its accumulated funds amounted to £4,250,000. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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