Basic Biographical Details Name: | Halley & Neil | Designation: | | Born: | 1906 | Died: | c. 1913 | Bio Notes: | Halley & Neil practised in Glasgow and Clydebank. Nothing is yet known of Charles James Halley, but his style suggests that, like James Mitchell White Halley, he was articled to Thomson & Sandilands. He may have been related to the Halleys of Halley's Industrial Motors Ltd, Yoker which was in business from 1906 to 27 and its predecessor firm the Glasgow Motor Lorry Co, in business between 1903 and 1906. Hamilton Neil was born in 1880, the son of David Neil, farmer and Isabella McKaig. He was articled to James Donald in Paisley from 1897 to 1904, attending the Paisley School of Design and Paisley Technical College, the Glasgow and West Of Scotland Technical College and Glasgow School of Art where he won various bursaries and prizes which enabled him to spend some time on study tours of England, Ireland, Scotland & France. Thereafter he was briefly assistant to Robert Thomson and John Bennie Wilson before joining Halley as assistant c.1905, becoming his partner in 1906.
Neil was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, proposed by John Bennie Wilson and the Glasgow Institute of Architects, of which he had become a member in 1907. Although the practice survived the Finance Act of 1909 and flourished as late as 1912, the partnership was dissolved on 31 May 1914. In 1914 Halley was practising from his home at 6 Broomhill Avenue, Partick; Neil practised independently in Glasgow throughout the 1920s and 1930s. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 153, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | Before 1908 | c. 1913 | | | 65, Kilbowie Street, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland | Business | 1911 * | 1914 | Second address at time of dissolution of partnership. | | 157, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1914 | | Address at time of dissolution of partnership |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Measurers\' Companion | 1911 | The Scottish Architects' and Measurers' Companion | | | |
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