Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Falkirk HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities This is an opportunity to see inside the town centre premises without taking out a legal case. The pictures and documents are worth a visit in their own right. Tours will be guided. Please note access for the weekend will be by the Kings Court entrance. OpeningTime1 10 am to 4.30 pm OpeningDate1 20/9/2015 OpeningTime2 12.30 pm 4 pm IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 13261 Refreshments No Street The street address Russel & Aitken AddressLine2 King's Court Postcode FK1 1PL Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Russel + Aitken Offices Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived falkirk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2035 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Description An account of the resource James Aitken began practising as a lawyer in Falkirk in 1792 and in 1818 was joined by James Russel. The premises, from the very beginning, were in Kings Court – named after a public house called the King’s Arms. The firm of Russel + Aitken is therefore probably the oldest one in Scotland to be operating under the same name and from the same site – it’s been almost 200 years!James Russel was also a businessman involved in the industrial growth of the town. Amongst his other interests he was the manager of the Falkirk Banking Company. His portrait still hangs in the offices.The offices were built for the firm and looking from the courtyard it often strikes the passer by as odd that there is a lot of wall between the windows and the roof. This is because there is a stone vault over the ground floor rooms designed to make them fire safe and burglar proof – useful for the valuable legal documents - hence also the shutters.Over the years the offices have been extended and now reach through to Cow Wynd and the 1993 façade designed by William Cadell. Consequently there are numerous levels within the building. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource early 19th century