Catalogue description Gleneagles Hotel photographic collection

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Details of The Gleneagles Hotel Collection
Reference: The Gleneagles Hotel Collection
Title: Gleneagles Hotel photographic collection
Description:

The Gleneagles Hotel collection comprises 6½ x 4¾ and 8½ x 6½ ins 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.
Date: c1923-1929
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 149 negatives; 2 transparencies
Unpublished finding aids:

Listed, with details of the course, hole or scenic view depicted. There are no reference prints.
Administrative / biographical background:

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 LMS. On nationalisation in 1948 the hotel was taken over by British Railways. It was sold into private ownership in 1981 and is recognised today as one of Britain's foremost golf courses.

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