Remembering Thomson

The Scottish Architect, Alexander “Greek” Thomson was born on 9th April 1817 inEndrick Cottage in the village of Balfron, around 15 miles north of Glasgow. He wasthe son of bookkeeper John Thomson and his second wife Elizabeth Cooper. Sadly,John died in 1824 and by the following year, Elizabeth moved to the outskirts ofGlasgow with her

Walton: The other ‘Glasgow boy’

Scottish Architect and Designer George Henry Walton, the youngest of twelve children, was born on 3rd June 1867 to Jackson Walton and his wife, Eliza Ann Nicholson. The Walton family settled near Glasgow by 1860 at Glanderston House on the south periphery of Barrhead, where several of their children were born. It was an old