Founded in 1870, Fettes College is just 1 mile from the centre of Edinburgh and is set in 100 acres of private parkland. The college has a fine tradition of academic success and has achieved the top A Level results in Scotland and more entrants to Oxford and Cambridge Universities than any other Scottish School during the last decade. Past pupils include Tony Blair and Lord Woolf.

As it says on the Fettes College website, “Everyone has a talent for something.” Longden’s talent is for manufacturing high quality, bespoke, solid timber doors and is the reason that the college chose them to supply 28 doors as part of a significant refurbishment and reconfiguration of existing dormitory accommodation on the second and third floors of the old college building.

The doors have been manufactured to match existing doors and are a mix of primed 6 panel Sheraton, with bed mould both sides, or 6 panel Sheraton with bollection mould both sides in stained Douglas Fir.

Longden worked on the project together with main contractors, Thomas and Adamson and G Sharkey & Sons of Edinburgh for whom they have previously supplied doors for the Royal Bank Of Scotland in

The Longden range of solid timber, doors has been gracing the UK’s finest buildings for well over a century. Longden can provide a complete end-to-end solution including ironmomgery, joinery, panelling, dado rails, skirting, plinth blocks and screens.

December 3rd 2007

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