MacFarlane Album

• Reference:GB 3143 09/6
• Dates of Creation:1960 - 1967

• Scope and Content

  MacFarlane Album. Comprises newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, invitations, etc. Mostly re. County business (including planning and housing), but also including information on:

  development of a motor car factory at Linwood, 1960-62;

  development of Abbotsinch airport, 1960;

  development of a "High level bridge over the Clyde [Erskine Bridge]", 1960-67

  Royal Commission on Police, 1960-62;

  development of Civic Centre and Piazza in Paisley, 1961 +

  opening Ceremony of Kirkhill Primary, Newton Mearns, 1961

  press release, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles and a commemorative brochure from Macfarlane Engineering Co., celebrating it's 50th anniversary, 1961

  restoration of Eaglesham, 1961;

  development of new Erskine and Houston "Communities", 1966-67;

  County Historic Buildings Plan, 1966;

  development of Civic Centre at Eastwood Toll, 1966;

  development of Clyde-Muirshiel Regional Park, 1967.