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Bertrams Office Staff - 1950s
Unknown, 1955, Photograph
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Bertrams Office Staff - 1950s
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Item no
34013
Title
Bertrams Office Staff - 1950s
Description
Office staff on the roof of Bertrams Limited, Sciennes with Salisbury Crags in the background.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1955
Size
13.5 x 21.0 cm
Type
Photograph
Copyright
Reproduced by kind permission of William J. Hall
The photographs in this exhibition were kindly loaned to us by Bill Hall for our digital collections. It contains images dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, taken across Scotland.
Brought up in Edinburgh he has collected many family photographs and items covering his mother's early years and his own boyhood.
Bertrams Limited was a papermaking machinery engineers in Sciennes, Edinburgh. It was founded in 1821 by brothers George and William Bertram. Bertrams was very much a family orientated company, producing it's own Bertram Family Magazine which featured articles on their sports clubs, social activities and employee news.The company closed in 1985 mainly as a result of foreign competition and recession in the paper industry.
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