Records of Hislop, Welsh & Humphrey, architects,Glasgow, Scotland

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723 rolls of drawings of both commercial and domestic Glasgow buildings 1894-1972
15 volumes of ledgers, accounts and letterbooks 1897-1976

Administrative / Biographical History

The architectural practice was established in 1897 by John Archibald Campbell (1859-1909) in West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland. Alexander David Hislop (1876-1966) joined the practice c1909 in the same year as John Campbell died and the firm traded as J A Campbell & A D Hislop from 1909-1960 . In 1924 , Charles G Welsh joined Hislop in the firm and from 1960 the firm traded as A D Hislop & C G Welsh. After the death of David Hislop in 1966 , the practice was joined by T G Humphreys in 1970 . From 1968 until the firms closure in c1980 , the firm traded as Hislop, Welsh & Humphreys, 1968-c.1975.

Their major projects included Rosneath Parish Church, Argyll & Bute, Scotland, between 1908 and 1909 ; Carrongrove Housing in Denny, near Falkirk, Scotland between 1919 and 1925 ; Partick High United Free Church, Glasgow in 1925 ; and Phoenix Assurance Company, St Vincent Street, Glasgow in 1935 .

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private records deposited by the owners

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Acquisition Information

Transferred from Glasgow University Archives : 1980 : ACCN 4633

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Item level descriptions are available via the department's online manuscripts catalogue available at http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/ searching by the call number MS Hislop

Collection guide available at the National Registers of Archives in Edinburgh (NRA(S)) and London (NRA)