Records the date of each visit and the title, surname and business address of each visitor. Entries date from 28 September 1949 to 27 September 1962. Two thirds of the pages are unused.
With original index. Includes two plans of the Ross Hall estate.
Includes a plan of the proposed layout of the common room and break bar, with designs for chairs and tables, by Morris of Glasgow; and a half inch scale drawing of the break bar counter by Frank Burnet & Boston, architects.
The panel contains clippings of advertisements taken from the following publications: the Times; the Scotsman; the Investor's Chronicle; the Sunday Telegraph; On the Road (a publication for commercial travellers); the Daily Express; the New York Times, and the New Yorker. This is one of a set of five panels (OF/26/24/2-6) used as teaching aids for a course entitled 'A Plan for Advertising for the Hotelkeeper,' delivered at the Scottish Hotel School in February 1962 (a newspaper clipping containing a photograph from the course also appears in item OF/26/21/1). The letter 'A' appears on the bottom right corner of the panel.
The Study Group was designed for managers and those at supervisory levels in the hotel-keeping and catering industries.
The Scottish Hotel School participated in catering for the banquet.
1 copy contains pasted-in amendments
Album containing cuttings of local and national newspaper and magazine articles relating to the Scottish Hotel School, its staff and students, and the hospitality and catering trade generally.
- Diploma examination papers for the following classes for session 1959-1960: Economics and Tourism; Management; Catering I A; Catering I B; Maintenance; French (Higher); Income Tax and Hotel Law; Hotel Accounting;
- List of ingredients and utensils to be used for an exercise or examination in catering, with method of work for preparing and serving the meal;
- Lecture notes on restaurant and dining room service, including: lectures on restaurant service by Mr A. Currie, Headwaiter ;Instructor; notes on the toastmaster's duties; and lectures on weddings, functions and banquets by Mr J. Houston, Assistant Headwaiter Instructor;
- Instructions for students on duty at the Scottish Hotel School, issued by the Director, Monsieur Roger Dutron, 1958;
- Correspondence concerning Gavin Billinghurst's applications to, and studies at, the Scottish Hotel School, 1957-1963 (access restricted);
- Song sheet containing words for 'The Happy Wanderer' and an unnamed song about the Scottish Hotel School, set to the tune of 'Toreador' from the opera, 'Carmen'; copies of a map of the parish of Eastwood, possibly used for rambling.
One copy is annotated on the front cover with the name 'Dr [Noel] Branton' and has lines drawn across some of the Diplomates' names on pages 2 and 3.
Contains pasted-in amendments
52 letters and enclosures, with original index.
The Diploma in Hotel Management was first offered in 1944 as a two-year course. From 1957 it was extended to three years. A new BA degree course was offered alongside the Diploma course in 1965. The final cohort of entrants to the Diploma course started in October 1966 and recruitment then closed, with only the BA course available thereafter.
Part-time classes offered at the Scottish Hotel School were only available to people at management and supervisory levels in the hotel-keeping and catering industries.