Gleneagles Hotel Collection

Made:
1924-1929 in Auchterarder

Photographs, a collection of approximately 146 6½ x 4¾ ins and 8½ x 6½ ins glass negatives, 6 6½ x 4¾ ins and 8½ x 6½ film negatives, probably cellulose nitrate, and 2 6½ x 4¾ ins transparencies, featuring golf at the London Midland & Scottish Railways Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, c1924-1929.

The Gleneagles Hotel collection comprises glass plate and film negatives and black and white transparencies, all featuring golf at the Gleneagles Hotel course. The collection includes publicity photographs of the course, posed views of golfers, together with photographs of major competitions in progress.

Railway companies aimed to offer a complete service for their passengers, and in Scotland specialist hotels with golf courses attached proved especially profitable. The Caledonian Railway began construction of its magnificent Gleneagles Hotel and golf course in Perthshire at Auchterarder in 1913. Work was interrupted by the First World War and it took eleven years to complete, eventually opening to visitors in 1924 under the ownership of the London Midland & Scottish Railway. The Scotsman announced that "Gleneagles Hotel has attained unto world fame suddenly". On nationalisation in 1948 the hotel was taken over by British Railways. It was sold into private ownership in 1981.

Details

Category:
Photographic Collections (Railway)
Object Number:
1996-7892
type:
photograph