Basic Biographical Details Name: | James Brown Armstrong | Designation: | | Born: | 29 January 1927 | Died: | | Bio Notes: | James Brown Armstrong was born in Dunfermline on 29 January 1927, the son of John Armstrong, joiner, and his wife Marion Wood Brown. He was articled to James Grant Shearer of Dunfermline in 1944. Armstrong studied at the School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, graduating from the diploma course in 1954 and being admitted ARIBA in that same year and ARIAS the folllowing year. Armstrong remained with the practice of Shearer & Annand. Shearer continued to be the lead designer in the firm right up to the time of his death on 20 December 1962; Annand died less than two years later in 1964. James David Shearer returned to continue the practice under the same title after his father's death.
Armstrong is still listed under the practice in 1970 but at some point after this left to live in Edinburgh (Bailey says he left in 1967 but this must be an error) and was still working for Shearer & Annand in 1970. By 1979 he had moved to the practice of Thomas Harley Haddow & Partners. No further details of him are yet known. He had retired by 1994 (no longer listed in directories). | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | Business | Before 1944 | 1967 | | | 24, Buchanan Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | Private | c. 1953 | | | | 21, Maygate, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | Private | 1955 * | | | | 8, Thistle Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | Private | c. 1960 | | | | 11, Haygate, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | Private(?) | c. 1966 | | | | 9, Pentland Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1970 | | | | Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | c. 1970 | | | | 8, Coates Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1979 | | Address of Harley Haddow |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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Buildings and DesignsThis was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | | Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | | 1959 | Loch Awe Hydro-Electric Project | Cruachan | | Argyll | Scotland | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Emmerson, Roger | | James Shearer architect 1881-1962 | | Unpublished | | | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p169-70 Awe Hydro-Electric Project, Cruachan section | | RCAHMS | 2004 | Creating a Future for the Past: the Scottish Architects' Papers Preservation Project | | Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | pp 114-17 | | RIBA | 1954 | RIBA Kalendar 1953-54 | | | | | RIBA | 1956 | Kalendar 1956-57 | | | | | RIBA | 1960 | The RIBA Kalendar 1959-1960 | 1959-1960 | | | | RIBA | 1966 | Kalendar 1966-67 | | | | | RIBA | 1970 | RIBA Directory 1970 | | | | | RIBA | 1979 | Directory of members | | | | | RIBA | 1987 | RIBA Directory of Members 1987 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | Interview with Eric Davidson, 20 October 2010 | Information to Yvonne Hillyard | | | | National Archives (via Scotlands People) | Statutory births | | | | RIAS, Rutland Square | Records of membership | | |
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