by KonstantinL » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:26 pm
This is a weird coincidence.
I picked up a book called 'The Amateurs Guide to Architecture' by S. Sophia Beale. I got it for a 2nd hand book store (Rousseau & Voltaire or is it the other way round?) took it home and when I flick through it a old newspaper clipping floated out.
On it was an artists impression of a new building that was going to be built in Glasgow, none other than the Scottish Legal Life Assurance building. The coincidence being that it's my favourite building in all of Glasgow.
I can't find the date anywhere on the clipping but there are cars in the artists impression so I'm guessing it was built somewhere in the region of 1920.
The blurb says The winning design for the new building of the Scottish Legal Life Assurance Society to be erected in Bothwell Street on a site opposite the Y. M. C. A. Building. The successful architects are Messrs Wright and Wylie, 203 West Regent Street, Glasgow
Bizarre what are the chances of that happening!
On the opposite side of the clipping there is some amusingly dated news.
It goes Ward of Lanarkshire Pansy Society and Floral Association was heldin the Town Hall, Motherwell, yesterday afternoon. Provost Archibald presided at the opening ceremony, which was performed Mrs Robertson-Aikman, of the Ross, Hamilton. The entries were lower than formerly. The exhibition all over was of a very high order. Mr W. H. Smellie, Shields Glen, Motherwell, was the most successful prize winner, having 21 premier awards to his credit. Winners of special awards were:- Mr R.Hamilton, Kitchener Street, Motherwell, best stand of fancy pansies; Mr James Smith, Mossend, for vase of clove carnation seedlings; best collection of vegetables (open to amateurs and gardeners), Mr J. H. Bell, Bothwell Castle Gardens, and Mr T. Sommerville, Low Motherwell.
Of course I live in Motherwell which makes this even weirder. I think that bookshop is a magical portal because some really weird things have happened in there to me!