ABANDONED CRAIGFORTH CAMPUS 2025

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Craigforth House, located on the northeast side of Craigforth Crag outside Stirling, was originally built in 1675 for the Callander family, and it remained in their family ownership for over two centuries. It was completely gutted by a fire in 1930 and then later restored, with an added wing to the left side of the entrance. Great care was apparently taken when restoring the building, to ensure it looked as close as possible to the original. In 1952 the house and grounds were sold to the Scottish Amicable Insurance Company, who initially operated a branch from the house until construction of an enormous brutalist-style office block on land near the manor house was completed in 1970 and they moved their headquarters in. Scottish Amicable is a huge worldwide investment and savings company founded in Glasgow in 1849 through the merger of the West of Scotland Fire Insurance and West of Scotland Life Insurance companies. They rapidly expanded to branches in London, Dublin and Belfast, and by the outbreak of the Second World War the company was operating from sixteen major branches and numerous smaller satellite offices across the UK. An office in Australia opened in 1960, followed by four more Australian branches by 1961. By the 1990s Scottish Amicable was the sixth largest life assurance company in the UK, with a huge consolidated site at Craigforth in Stirling, Scotland.

In 1997 Scottish Amicable was acquired by Prudential Assurance, with them being used by Prudential and Prudential's successor M&G until 2022, when all staff moved to a brand new office building in the new business park next to the old campus.

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2025