Broughton Place Tower House With Music On History Visit To The Borders Of Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Broughton Place Tower House and gardens on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Scottish Borders. It was designed by Basil Spence in the style of a 17th century Scottish Baronial tower house. Spence was born on 13 August 1907 in Bombay, British India. the son of Urwin Archibald Spence, an assayer with the Royal Mint. He was educated at the John Connon School, operated by the Bombay Scottish Education Society, and was then sent back to Scotland to attend George Watson's College in Edinburgh, from 1919 to 1925. He enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art in 1925, studying architecture, where he secured a maintenance scholarship on the strength of the " unusual brilliance " of his work. He won several prizes at the college, and meanwhile carried out paid work drawing architectural perspectives for practising architects including Leslie Grahame-Thomson, Reginald Fairlie and Frank Mears. In 1929, he spent a year as an assistant, along with William Kininmonth, in the London office of Sir Edwin Lutyens, whose work was to have a profound influence on Spence's style, where he worked on designs for the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, India. While in London, England, he attended evening classes at the Bartlett School of Architecture under A. E. Richardson. Returning to Edinburgh in 1930 for his final year of studies, he was appointed a junior lecturer, despite the fact that he was still a student. He continued to teach at Edinburgh College of Art until 1939. In 1934 Spence married, and his work was now concentrated on exhibition design, including three pavilions for the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, and country houses. He is most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also was responsible for numerous other building. Spence died in November 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk and was buried at nearby Thornham Parva. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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