View from SW.
BL 14439
Description View from SW.
Date 1897
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 14439
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content British Linen Bank, Market Square, Melrose, Scottish Borders (now the Bank of Scotland) The British Linen Bank, an impressive red sandstone building designed in a Renaissance style by the architect, George Washington Browne, was built in 1897 as a branch office in Melrose. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the building c.1898. This tall building, with two storeys and an attic, has a three-bayed front divided by panelled pilasters at each floor. The entrance is in the right-hand bay, with a large segmental-headed window lighting the banking hall to the left. The attic floor has a sculptured cartouche in a tall, shaped gable topped by an obelisk. The British Linen Bank was founded in 1746 to promote the Scottish linen industry. It offered its banking services (including issuing its own bank notes) to customers at offices in many parts of Scotland, thus becoming the pioneer of branch banking. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass negative
External Reference Box 29
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