Telfer Family Papers

Primary maker
1. William W Telfer
2. John Telfer
Production date
1876-1969
 Description
Membership cards of East Stirlingshire Cricket Club, 1923-1935, Falkirk Art Club, 1949-1952, Falkirk Tonic Solfa Association, 1876-1877, Falkirk Choral Society, 1951-523, Programmes of Falkirk & District Choral Union, 1930, The Siddall Orchestra, 1947-1949, Falkirk & District Orchestra, 1961-1969, Falkirk Burns Club, 1913, Falkirk Historical Pageant, 1932, Falkirk High School war memorial, invitations to opening of new town hall and municipal buildings, 1966 and ephemera.

Object detail

Department
Archives Collections
Administrative History
John Telfer, (1835-1915) was born in Newton Mearns and moved with his family to Falkirk when his father was a patternmaker at Falkirk Foundry. John worked in the moulding shop and then became an apprentice engineer in Bainsford and then worked in Glasgow and then Grangemouth on the screw steamer Elf. He was an ironturner with Smith Fullerton & Co, Camelon Foundry, and was a foreman for ten years at Kilns then foreman at Castlelaurie Foundry. In 1886 he became an assistant manager at Falkirk Foundry, and then became Manager of Castlelaurie Foundry. He retired c. 1904 when "Being exceedingly fond of photography they presented him with a valuable camera on his retiral" (Falkirk Herald July 22 1908). John Telfer set up "Telfer's Choir" in Falkirk. He studied Tonic Sol-fa in 1866 and then set up the Falkirk Tonic Sol-fa Association and was appointed their conductor. Although he was a Baptist, he was appointed the Precentor in Grahamston Parish Church (appointed by the Baird Trust). He was also member of the Falkirk Building Society committee, member of the Sir John de Graeme Lodge of Oddfellows, member of Free Library Committee, Falkirk Burns Club and the Council of the Natural History and Archaeology Society.

William Telfer (1907-1993), John Telfer’s grandson, was an artist, amateur musician and Vice Chairman of Falkirk Arts & Civic Council. and was the Managing Director of Thomas Paul & Co. He was a violinist with the Siddall Orchestra and conducted the Falkirk Orchestra.
Record level
Collection
Collection
Telfer Family Papers/Family & Personal Papers Group
Primary maker
Production date
1876-1969
Measurements
45 items (0.3m)
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Restriction
Open - no restriction on access
Accession number
A1379

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