There was a time when one had to have a moustache to be a Director of Baillie Marshall. This unwritten rule originated in 1980 (above) and it wasn’t until financial director, Mr Brian Helmore, and a certain Mr Douglas MacArthur joined us from Radio Clyde, that we agreed to have clean-shavens join us on the board. Otherwise, the ‘five moustachios’ remained a constant force within the design and advertising business in the 1980s and 90s.
The accompanying photos show us inside Jim and George’s ArtWorkShop in Castle Street, Tayport (above), outside the Baillie Marshall offices in Princes Street, Dundee and 10 Alva Street, Edinburgh, and in the boardroom of 1 Harrison Road, Dundee.
The photo below shows four of us at an exhibition in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, showing current work of ex-graphic students, photographed appropriately in front of our Balgray and Baillie Marshall panels. (Jim Greig also qualified at DofJ, but as an Interior Designer.) Alan Bell, extreme left with no moustache, was also a Baillie Marshall ex-DofJ (as were Jackie Malcolm, nee Smith, and Chris Gallacher, both not in photo). Kate Lackie, of Lackie Newton, is the one wearing the skirt; Bill Barr, Head of Graphics, is third from the left, while Myer Lacome, Head of the Design School, is third from the right.
That moustache second from the right looks particularly dodgy, not to mention the suede jacket and matching shoes!!!