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Gateway Theatre (Edinburgh)
The Gateway Theatre (built as the New Edinburgh Veterinary College) was a Category C listed building in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on Elm Row at the top of Leith Walk. History Veterinary College The building was purpose-built by George Beattie and Sons in 1882 to accommodate W. Owen Williams' New Veterinary CollegeMackie, A.D (1965), "Forty-One Elm Row", in ''The Twelve Seasons of the Edinburgh Gateway Company, 1953 - 1965'', St. Giles Press, Edinburgh (not to be confused with the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, which is still extant, elsewhere in the city). In 1904, the College vacated the building, with a professor and eleven students relocating to the veterinary faculty at Liverpool. The college buildings were sold to William Perry in 1908, who then applied for a roof to be built over the courtyard to create a roller-skating rink. Cinema Perry's rink did not last long and the building was converted again in 1910, by architect Ralph Pringle, into a cinema known as Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Category C Listed
This is a list of Category A listed buildings in Scotland, which are among the listed buildings of the United Kingdom. For a fuller list, see the pages linked on List of listed buildings in Scotland. Key The organization of the lists in this series is on the same basis as the statutory register. County names are those used in the register, and in the case of Scotland they parallel the current administrative areas. Category A listed buildings in Scotland See also *List of castles in Scotland *List of country houses in the United Kingdom * List of hillforts in Scotland * List of historic sites in Scotland *List of monastic houses in Scotland * List of National Trust for Scotland properties *List of post-war Category A listed buildings in Scotland *Listed buildings in England * Listed buildings in Northern Ireland *Listed buildings in Wales *Lists of listed buildings in Scotland This is a list of listed building#Scotland, listed buildings in Scotland. The list is split ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrone Guthrie
Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, ''Annaghmakerrig'', near Newbliss in County Monaghan, Ireland. He is famous for his original approach to Shakespearean and modern drama. Early life Guthrie was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, the son of Dr. Thomas Clement Guthrie (a grandson of the Scottish preacher Thomas Guthrie) and Norah Power. His mother was the daughter of Sir William James Tyrone Power, Commissary-General-in-chief of the British Army from 1863 to 1869 and Martha, daughter of Dr. John Moorhead of Annaghmakerrig House and his Philadelphia-born wife, Susan (née Allibone) Humphreys. His great-grandfather was Irish actor Tyrone Power and he was a second cousin of famed film actor Tyrone Power. Guthrie's sister, Susan Margaret, mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for ''Winter Solstice''. Personal life She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. Her parents were Helen (''née'' Harvey) and Charles Scott, a British civil servant. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, while her mother remained in England. She attended the School of St. Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 15. From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Ian Hunter
Sir Ian Bruce Hope Hunter (2 April 19195 September 2003) was an English impresario of classical music. Known as 'Mr. Festival' to many in the arts world, Hunter was one of the most important figures in a post-World War II cultural renaissance in the United Kingdom. From the mid-1950s, following the death of Harold Holt, he headed the music management agency Harold Holt Ltd, which joined with Lies Askonas Ltd in the late 1990s to form Askonas Holt. Biography Born in Hadley Wood, Middlesex, Hunter began his career in 1947, as assistant to artistic director Rudolf Bing at the very first Edinburgh Festival. He succeeded Bing as the festival's director in 1950, remaining in the position through 1955. He served as the director of numerous other festivals, including the Bath Festival from 1948 to 1968, the City of London Festival from 1962 to 1980, the Brighton Festival from 1967 to 1983, and festivals in Windsor and Hong Kong. "Festivals," he once said, "are like sudden fireworks i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moray McLaren
Moray David Shaw McLaren (1901–1971) was a Scottish writer and broadcasting executive. Life He was educated at Merchiston Castle School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and spent time in Paris. He worked as assistant editor on the '' London Mercury'', before joining the staff of the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he was assistant editor of '' The Listener'' in 1929. McLaren moved back to Scotland in 1930 as a BBC Scottish Region radio executive, acting as deputy to David Cleghorn Thomson, and in his work ''Return to Scotland'' of that year laid emphasis on his Roman Catholic background. He announced his interest in Scottish nationalism in 1931 by supporting George Malcolm Thomson's pamphlet ''The Kingdom of Scotland Restored''. During the 1930s McLaren was transferred to other posts within the BBC. He worked on the '' Radio Times'' under Eric Maschwitz. He was in the Talks department. He originated a series on Scottish forensic oratory, from which John Gough's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
