Robert Hurd , F.R.LA.S.
Robert Hurd is a prominent young Scottish architect who has worked extensively in the last few years on the restoration of old buildings. Listeners may remember his recent contribution to the magazine programme ' In Britain Now ', when he told of the restoration of Lamb's house in Leith, the dwelling to which Mary Queen of Scots was taken on her arrival from France in 1561 before she made her official entrance to the capital city of Edinburgh.
In his talk this afternoon Robert
Hurd will look towards the future and give his ideas for the building of a new Scotland after the war. He will touch on town and country planning, dealing with such contingencies as the provision of houses for workers who have been transferred to the country because of change of occupation.