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Standard Life Assurance Co 'Tanfield House' Administrative Offices, Canonmills, Edinburgh |
May 1987
The back of Tanfield House, before Standard Life development started
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken May 3, 1987
April 1989
The back of Tanfield House, with the framework for the new office being built
Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken April 15, 1989
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Tanfield House |
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Standard Life New Administration Offices Tanfield House and the surrounding land at Tanfield was acquired by The Standard Life Assurance Company as a site for their new Administration Offices. These offices opened in 1991. The large stone building, formerly occupied by Morrison & Gibb was retained and large open-plan glass-fronted offices, with three domes to let in the daylight were built adjoining the back of the stone building. The whole complex was named 'Tanfield House'. |
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Photo 1 May 1987 Photo 1 looks to the east towards the back of the former Morrison & Gibb offices, after the site had been acquired by Standard Life and the area behind these offices had been cleared to allow the development to proceed. |
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Photo 2 April 1989 Photo 2 shows is a similar view, taken a couple of years later, when the framework for the new glass-fronted part of Tanfield House was well advanced. Note that the old stone building is to be given a new roof, and a new wall where the steel structure can be sen on the left. |
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April 1989 Please click on the thumbnail image below to see the new wall, almost complete, one month later: |
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1993 This view looks at the front of Tanfield House, about two years after it opened as Standard Life Administration Offices. |
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2006 By around 2006, the number of staff employed by Standard Life (but not the amount of business being written) had declined, and Tanfield House was put on the market. It has now (in 2011) been redeveloped internally and split into a number of smaller offices, not yet all fully occupied. |
