Architect and designer. Born Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. In 1874, he travelled to Italy with John Ruskin to study the architecture. He later opened his own architectural practice in London, and in 1882 co-founded the Century Guild of Artists. As well as designing several houses in London, he was a pioneer of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) movement.
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Sir Arthur Mackmurdo
Arthur H. Mackmurdo, architect, 1851 - 1942, a pioneer and founder of the Art...
Architect and politician. Studied architecture at University College London and the Royal Academy Schools, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1889. Elected to the...
Son of architect Ewart Culpin. Also designed Greenwich Town Hall. RIBA vice-president.
Designed by Walter Epps. It was intended to stand 'as a memorial to the enterprise and loyalty of the inhabitants of Bexleyheath'. Our picture shows the tower in 1912.
Private in the Royal West Kents. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Private Harold Kenchatt was born on 20 November 1891 in Hendon, the second son and the third of the five children of William ...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Rosina Sarah Cooper was born on 4 March 1906, a daughter of William Henry Cooper and Sarah Ann Cooper née Hutchins (1872-1940) whose birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1906 in the Southwark...
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