Old Photograph Academy Linlithgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Academy in Linlithgow, Scotland. The original Academy was built in 1900 to a design by James Graham Fairley and replaced an earlier kirk institution, known as " Sang Schule. " James Graham Fairley was born in 1846 in West Calder in West Lothian the son of William Fairley, a millwright and engineer, and his wife, Elizabeth Graham. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. He was then apprenticed as an architect to Robert Thornton Shiells at 7 Gilmore Place in Edinburgh. He did further training in the City Engineer's Department under Robert Matheson, whilst also taking engineering classes at the University of Edinburgh alongside Robert Louis Stevenson, who briefly trained as an engineer in his family's tradition. He then went to London, England, for six months in 1873, working under Sir Edmund Frederick du Cane, before returning to Edinburgh to set up his own practice at 21 Rintoul Place in Stockbridge. He died at home, 47 Abercorn Terrace, built to his own design, in Portobello, Edinburgh on 6 April 1934.



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