Fortingall I always enjoy returning to Fortingall, the model village which was created by shipping magnate Sir Donald Currie and architect James MacLaren. Currie made his fortune from the Union Castle Line which plied the route between Southampton and Cape Town in South Africa and he bought the Garth Estate in Glen Lyon in ScotlandContinue reading “Blog 86”
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Blog 84
The Union Bank of Scotland 1924-27 100 years ago, in 1924, Norman Hird, the dynamic new 39 year-old General Manager of the Union Bank of Scotland announced an architectural competition for the design of their new headquarters building in Glasgow. The winning entry was that of James Miller who, by the 1920’s, had succeeded JJContinue reading “Blog 84”
John Stewart 