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Records relating to the Glasgow School of Art's first properties on Ingram Street: GOV/5/11/1: Copy Offer letter from the Union Bank of Scotland to sell the Ingram Street property, on the corner of Ingram Street and Montrose Street, to the Glasgow School of Art for £3,500, 1845 GOV/5/11/2: Letter from Thomas Binnie and William McCall, surveyors, to the Glasgow School of Art about a valuation of the Ingram Street property at £3,870, 31 Jan 1861 GOV/5/11/3: Mutual Discharge by The Union Bank of Scotland and The Glasgow School of Design, 1869

Perspective drawing for Albert Memorial. Prince Albert died in Dec 1861 and designs were invited for a memorial hall and monument. It is not clear whether this perspective represents one of these or a combination of both. The base is an immense podium with battered sides, on it another podium with couchant lions at each corner, above this rises a single-story block with battered walls, each side pierced with a bank of linked windows, the tower culminating in a ribbed dome. The immense size of the battered doorways and the low relief on the walls recalls Egyptian temples. The competition was won by Sir Gilbert Scott.