In the middle of December 2025, the Wrights & Coopers Incorporation held their annual Election Dinner & Dance. In the spirit of preserving local history the Wrights & Coopers provided table gifts of spurtles or keyrings to each of their guests attending.
These items in themselves had been prepared by the skilled hands of Wrights & Coopers Incorporation member Ex Deacon Alan Steele for many years, however it was the raw material in this instance that helped keep a small part of local trade history alive. The Scots Pine timbers used in the turning were reclaimed from the main entrance doorframe of the now demolished Alexander Hall & Sons (Builders) on Granitehill Road (Building 1950-2025), Northfield.
As a construction company with what was the largest bespoke joinery workshop in Scotland, they were responsible for employing and training of thousands of apprentices and tradesmen across all construction trades and for the construction of the city’s post war Social Housing, Schools, and many of the new Office Blocks and Commercial Buildings that accompanied the oil boom from the 1970’s.
With nothing left but a cleared site where the buildings once stood, these items are now in themselves a very small part of local history!