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George Wimpey was a British construction firm. Formed in 1880 and based in Hammersmith, it initially operated largely as a road surfacing contractor. The business was acquired by Godfrey Mitchell in 1919, and he developed it into a construction and housebuilding firm. In July 2007, Wimpey merged with Taylor Woodrow to create Taylor Wimpey. Wimpey was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1934.

Lorimer & Matthew was formed in January 1927 when John Fraser Matthew, who had begun as an apprentice in Robert Stodart Lorimer’s practice in 1893 and had been office manager since c.1899, was made a partner in recognition of the immense work-load pressures falling on them both. However, Lorimer died soon after, in September 1929, and Matthew became sole partner.

Following Lorimer’s death, at the time of the Wall Street crash, the practice ran into financial difficulties: the purchase of Lorimer's interest from Lady Lorimer had cost Matthew £4,000, and he lacked Lorimer’s skill at attracting new business. When Hew Lorimer, an architectural student at Edinburgh College of Art, applied for admission to his father's firm in 1929, he was told that 'Your father and I had no such arrangement' and the financial situation was cited as a reason for the refusal, although Matthew was also later to say that 'he'd had enough of Lorimer' and 'one Lorimer was enough for a life-time'. By this time the office was seriously short of work: the demand for churches and large houses had disappeared and important commissions, such as the Reid Memorial Church and, later on, Lothian House, were lost to competitors (Leslie Grahame Thomson and Stewart Kaye respectively). Staff members were paid off, including assistant Harry Hubbard, and Matthew’s eldest son, Robert, began assisting at the firm from 1930 after graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, initially working for no pay.

Matthew’s youngest son, Stuart Russell Matthew, began as an assistant at Lorimer & Matthew in 1934-35, taking over from Robert who by that time was only helping out part-time and who left to take up the post of assistant architect with the Department of Health for Scotland in 1936. Stuart was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and at the Royal College of Art in London, and shared his father's interest in fine craftsmanship, much of the practice being concerned with small-scale armorial work. Stewart continued at Lorimer & Matthew after passing the qualifying exam in June 1937 and was taken into partnership in January 1946.

While working together in 1950, both Stuart and his father suffered nervous breakdowns. For John Matthew, this was his second breakdown (the first being in 1926, shortly before being made a partner, as a result of the stresses of the Scottish National War Memorial project), and it sent him into semi-retirement. While working on a stressful project for a hotel at Bridge of Lochay in 1949-50, Stuart, in turn, had his own ‘collapse’, leaving his brothers, Robert and Douglas, to try to help their father keep Lorimer & Matthew afloat. Stuart’s partnership with his father was dissolved shortly thereafter, after John Matthew, having taken over the design work Stuart had done on the Thistle Foundation’s housing for severely disabled ex-servicemen, insisted on changing Stuart’s design. Stuart subsequently merged his practice with that of David Carr, while John Matthew practiced independently for about a year, finally retiring completely in 1951. Lorimer & Matthew was wound up in all but name, Stuart Matthew completing such work as was still in hand and assigning only a minority of new projects to the practice, such as Warriston Crematorium (1956). A much greater workload was carried out by Carr & Matthew, which remained relatively successful throughout the 1950s until its closure in 1959 when David Carr moved to set up his own practice.

During the 1960s, with his practice ebbing away because of his continued poor health, Stuart took in work farmed out by his brother Robert Matthew who had founded his own practice in 1953. After failing to make an effective contribution on larger projects, including development plans for Dundee University and Glasgow Royal College (later Strathclyde University), Robert provided Stuart with less urgent, small-scale or family-related projects, including work on Robert’s office and flat at 31 Regent Terrace and the modest job of designing a modern front elevation for a rebuilding scheme for the Army and Navy Club at St James Square, Westminster.

In August 1963, Stuart suffered his most devastating nervous breakdown while working with Robert on the design for the reconstruction of Loretto School Chapel, which had been delegated to Stuart due to the longstanding association of Lorimer & Matthew with the School. The decision was taken to absorb the project fully into Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners and Robert effectively took over Stuart’s office and most of his staff, and thereafter kept Stuart supplied with a succession of small jobs.

Founded c. 1837. Acquired by the Economic Group in 1970.

Paisley coalesced under James II's wish that the lands should become a single regality and, as a result, markets, trading and commerce began to flourish. In 1488 the town's status was raised by James IV to Burgh of barony. Many trades sprang up and the first school was established in 1577 by the Town Council.

The origins of the Board of Ordnance are generally associated with the 14th century development of the Wardrobe of Arms into the Privy Wardrobe of the Tower, a department specialising in the provisions of arms and warlike stores. Master Nicholas Merbury, appointed in 1414, is the first known Master of the Ordnance. The post was a replacement for the virtually defunct Keepership of the Privy Wardrobe. During the 15th century the status of the Master rose steadily, and from 1483 all holders of the office were knights or peers. The first major re-organisation came in 1543, when Henry VIII created the subordinate officers (Lieutenant, Storekeeper, Surveyor and Clerk of Deliveries) to assist the Master. As yet, all these officers held their posts by individual letters patent, and not until 1597 were they actually constituted as a Board. Two elements were already present which were to characterise the Board. Firstly, it was concerned with all "ordnance, emption and munition", not solely with heavy guns: indeed, its early development preceded the introduction of firearms. Though, in time, heavy guns came to be the most important of the Ordnance's responsibilities, they were only a part of the weapons, ammunition and stores which the Ordnance provided for fighting forces. At a time when both land and sea forces could be assembled ad hoc to meet any emergency, only the provision of arms required a standing organisation with permanent stores. In fact, the Ordnance Office may be regarded as the first permanent military department in England.

The Board continued during the seventeenth century and in 1683 assumed the form which it was to preserve, largely unaltered, into the 19th century. The Master-General, or in his absence the Lieutenant-General, was to preside over a Board consisting of himself and the four Principal Officers. The establishment of the department was divided into Civil and Military. The former included the members of the Board itself, together with its clerks and other employees who formed the staff of the Ordnance Office in the Tower, which was the headquarters and principal magazine. The Military Establishment consisted originally of the Master-Gunner of England and his subordinates the fee'd (that is, salaried) gunners, who formed the only permanent garrison of forts and castles, together with a few civilian engineers (who designed and constructed fortifications and other works), a Firemaster and Fireworkers (who conducted experiments with explosives) and a Proof-Master (who did the like with guns). The Board's responsibilities were divided into Sea and Land Service. The Sea Service, which was initially by far the larger, included the issue of all guns and warlike stores not only to ships but also to forts, whose guns and gunners were more or less interchangeable with those at sea. The Land Service comprised the issue of small arms to whatever military forces were raised, and also the provision of waggons, tents and the like to the Army and the Royal Household. The reforms of 1683, however, entrusted the Board with the provision of artillery and engineer trains, if required. As there was virtually no field army at that date, this was an insignificant addition to the liabilities of the Office, but the great expansion of the Army during William III?s reign, and the frequent wars of the 18th century, gave rise to large standing corps of Artillery and Engineers. The Board was now responsible for thousands of officers and men, and intimately involved in field operations in many parts of the world.

This naturally changed the character of the Ordnance. The Civil Establishment, which had once included all the Office and still included all the Principal Officers, came to be eclipsed by the Military. Military engineers succeeded to the posts formerly held by civilians; military officers ran the Board's numerous and important establishments, such as the Royal Arsenal, Royal Academy and Royal Laboratory at Woolwich, and the powder mills at Faversham and Waltham Abbey.

The Ordnance Board, therefore, entered the 19th century increasingly dominated by army officers. With the end of the Great War in 1815 the process continued. Even the Principal Offices (of which the Lieutenant-Generalship and the Clerkship of Deliveries were abolished in 1833), hitherto always held by civilians, passed to soldiers. The Board came to present the appearance of a second war department. In 1855 the Board of Ordnance was abolished and its duties merged with those of the War Office. With that, control of the Navy's guns passed to the army, engendering a protracted and bitter departmental feud. Besides the principal responsibilities entrusted by Charles II to the Board (that is, the provisions of arms and ammunitions, the building and upkeep of fortifications and barracks, the Engineers and the Artillery), the Board acquired other responsibilities. The Firemaster and Fireworkers supplied fireworks for royal entertainments, the Yeoman of Tents and Toyls and the Waggonmaster likewise supplied the royal household, and the Astronomer Royal was borne on the Ordnance books. These and other diverse activities are reflected in the Board's records.

The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict., c.62) created school boards in Scotland with a statutory duty to provide education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13. The boards had an elected membership made up of owners and occupiers of property of the value of £4 or over. They were responsible for the building and maintenance of schools, staffing and attendance of pupils. They were overseen by the Scotch Board of Education. The Education (Scotland) Act 1901 (64 Vict. and 1 Edw. VII, c.9) raised the school leaving age to 14. School boards were abolished by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V, c.48) and replaced by education authorities and school management committees.

The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict., c.62) created school boards in Scotland with a statutory duty to provide education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13. The boards had an elected membership made up of owners and occupiers of property of the value of £4 or over. They were responsible for the building and maintenance of schools, staffing and attendance of pupils. They were overseen by the Scotch Board of Education. The Education (Scotland) Act 1901 (64 Vict. and 1 Edw. VII, c.9) raised the school leaving age to 14. School boards were abolished by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V, c.48) and replaced by education authorities and school management committees.

The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict., c.62) created school boards in Scotland with a statutory duty to provide education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13. The boards had an elected membership made up of owners and occupiers of property of the value of £4 or over. They were responsible for the building and maintenance of schools, staffing and attendance of pupils. They were overseen by the Scotch Board of Education. The Education (Scotland) Act 1901 (64 Vict. and 1 Edw. VII, c.9) raised the school leaving age to 14. School boards were abolished by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V, c.48) and replaced by education authorities and school management committees.

This committee covered Bannockburn.

School management committees were set up by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V, c.48). They represented individual burghs, parishes or groups of parishes and were composed of representatives of teachers, parents, and the education authority. Under the 1947 Local Government Act they were replaced by sub-committees or local education sub-committees, which were themselves abolished in 1975 (Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947, 10 & 11 Geo. VI, c.43; Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, c.65).

This committee covered Larbert.

School management committees were set up by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V, c.48). They represented individual burghs, parishes or groups of parishes and were composed of representatives of teachers, parents, and the education authority. Under the 1947 Local Government Act they were replaced by sub-committees or local education sub-committees, which were themselves abolished in 1975 (Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947, 10 & 11 Geo. VI, c.43; Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, c.65).