Bertrams Office Staff - 1950s - Capital Collections

Category

Library Item

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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Manufacturing Industry > Manufacturing facilities > Engineering works

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Sciennes

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