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Description: | From the medieval period until the early 19th century, St Andrews students tended to live and dine within colleges. This system was abandoned by 1820. However, the late 19th and 20th centuries saw the creation of new halls of residence. The first, St Leonard's Hall (1861-74) was short-lived. University Hall, for women students, opened in 1896, and was followed by various halls of residence including St Salvator's Hall (1930) and McIntosh Hall (1939). The new halls required cutlery and dining ware for their occupants. This included some fine pieces which have now passed into the Museum Collections. For example, two fine candelabra designed by Omar Ramsden for St Salvators's Hall, dated 1934-5. Some material relates to the Grand Hotel, which from 1896-1948 operated as a luxury hotel in St Andrews, before being bought by the University a year after its closure and turned into Hamilton Hall, a residence for 100 students. The dining ware for Hamilton Hall was inherited from the Grand Hotel, and included silver-plated teapots, coffee pots, hot water pots, toast racks, general cutlery etc, the majority made in England around the late 19th to early 20th century, and often with inscriptions relating to the Grand Hotel. Hamilton Hall was sold by the University in 2008 but representative samples of the silverware are held in the Museum Collections. | Subjects: | HAMILTON HALL Dining Ware UNIVERSITY HALL ST SALVATOR'S HALL silver Sir David Russell SCOTTISH HISTORY GRAND HOTEL | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | University of St Andrews | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | HC:C12 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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