View from SSW showing entrance
SC 803933
Description View from SSW showing entrance
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 803933
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Anderston Branch of the Savings Bank of Glasgow, No 752 Argyle Street, Glasgow, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the doorway of the Anderston Cross branch of the bank, in Argyle Street, built in 1899-1900 to designs by James Salmon Junior and J Gaff Gillespie in Art Nouveau style. The sculpture is by Albert Hodge. The detailing of this building is particularly refined, and reflects the savings bank ideal of helping people who were not particularly well off. At the time when the bank building was constructed Anderston was a crowded industrial area, and this was its best building. The savings bank movement was started in Scotland in c.1815 by the minister of Ruthwell parish in Dumfries-shire. It spread rapidly, and was particularly successful in Glasgow, where many low wage earners used the Savings Bank of Glasgow as a safe place for their small savings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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