Old Photograph Louise Terrace Broughty Ferry Scotland

Old photograph of people walking on Louise Terrace in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. David Lindsay Allan who built houses on Louise Terrace was born in 1874. He was educated at Dundee High School and apprenticed to John Murray Robertson from 1890 to 1894, remaining as assistant and studying at Dundee Technical Institute. In 1897 Allan obtained a place in the office of Niven and Wigglesworth in London, England, which enabled him to study at the RA Schools from 1898. He then returned to Dundee, becoming an assistant to Robert Blackadder at 41 Reform Street. Allan joined the Dundee Institute of Architects in 1902 and after three years with Blackadder was taken into partnership in 1903, but the practice could not be said to have flourished architecturally despite its influential connections. On Robert Blackadder's retirement in 1908 Allan merged the practice with Leslie Ower's as Leslie Ower and Allan, at Ower's 5 Whitehall Street office, probably to retain the civil engineering side of the Blackadder practice, Ower being civil engineer as well as architect. Robert Blackadder's son David then moved his law practice to 32 Castle Street. Allan undertook several study tours, spending two periods of two weeks in Normandy and Brittany and three weeks in Italy, Europe.



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