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.