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Parkhead Savings Bank

M272 Parkhead Savings Bank

Address: 1448–1456, Gallowgate, Glasgow G31 4ST
Date: 1906–8
Client: Savings Bank of Glasgow
Authorship: Authorship category 4 (Office) (Office)

Colour photograph of Burgher Street elevation of Parkhead Savings Bank

1906
10 August 1906: The Committee of Management of the Savings Bank of Glasgow approves the appointment of John Keppie as architect for the Parkhead branch. 1
9 October: Plans of the new branch to be discussed by the Bank's Finance Committee, with Keppie in attendance. 2
1907
28 March: Plans approved by Glasgow Dean of Guild Court. 3
April: 'Coloured elevations' shown in Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts exhibition (790). 4
7 May: Work begins on site. 5
28 October: Walls have reached fifth storey. 6
1908
27 May: Finishing roof of tower. 7
31 August: Plasterwork finished. 8
24 October: Bank opens for business. 9
10 December: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court inspector declares the building 'finished'. 10
Represented in 1908 Royal Scottish Academy exhibition, Edinburgh (428).
1909
Photographs of finished building and watercolour of corner entrance exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy and illustrated in Academy Architecture. 11
1920
17 September: Watercolour of corner entrance illustrated in the Builder. 12

Notes:

1: University of Glasgow Archive Services: Savings Bank of Glasgow records, Minute Book 8, GB0248 TSB 63 1/1/8.

2: University of Glasgow Archive Services: Savings Bank of Glasgow records, letters out book, GB0248 TSB 63 1/11/28, p. 753.

3: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/31, p. 129.

4: Builders' Journal and Architectural Engineer, 25, 10 April 1907, p. 159; Academy Architecture, 31, January 1907, p. 51.

5: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/31, p. 129.

6: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/31, p. 129.

7: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/31, p. 129.

8: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections , D-OPW 25/31, p. 129.

9: Glasgow University Archive Services: Savings Bank of Glasgow records, Minute Book 8, TSB 63 1/1/8.

10: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/31, p. 129.

11: Academy Architecture, 36, July 1909, pp. 88–91.

12: Builder, 119, 17 September 1920, p. 308.