William Wilson RSA 1905-1972
Demolition in Hanover Street, around 1938
Ink and gouache
50.5 x 37.8 cm
From the RSA Collection (David Muirhead Memorial Fund Purchase, 1941)
This probably shows the demolition on the site for the new Headquarters building of the Edinburgh Savings Bank (now the TSB). Designed by William Paterson of Oldrieve, Bell and Paterson,...
This probably shows the demolition on the site for the new Headquarters building of the Edinburgh Savings Bank (now the TSB). Designed by William Paterson of Oldrieve, Bell and Paterson, the Rubislaw granite building was hailed as ‘one of the most sumptuous building projects of the post war period.’