Architect. Born Stockport. London works include: Great Court at the British Museum, London City Hall on the river, the Millennium Bridge, Sainsbury building at Holborn Circus, 8 Canada Square in Docklands, 30 Mary Axe (the gherkin), the Willis building in Lime Street, Wembley Stadium, Stansted airport terminal.
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Francis Golding
Architectural expert: honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), head of the Royal Fine Art Commission during the late 1990s and had worked on major projects such as the ...
Sir Herbert Baker and Scott
Architects. Later Vernon Helbing joined the firm. Sir Herbert Baker was one of the four principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission, See Blomfield for the others.
Charles Holden
Architect. Born Bolton. c.1897 he moved to London and worked briefly for C. R. Ashbee. 1899 he moved to H. Percy Adams' practice where he stayed for the rest of his career. c.1906 moved to Harmer G...
William Douglas Caroe
Born near Liverpool, son of the Danish Consul. Became an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, specialising in churches. The splendid 1 Millbank was built for the Church Commissioners in 1903. Di...
Sir William Chambers
Architect. Though born in Gothenburg, Sweden where his father was a merchant, he is considered to be Scots. Having visited China he designed the Pagoda and Roman Ruin in Kew Gardens. Somerset Hous...
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John Cyril Lees Collingham
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children of Joseph Mawer Collingham (1832-1902) and Jane Eliza Collingham née Lees (1836-1919). His birth was registered in 2nd qu...
Barking Abbey
Former royal monastery. Founded by St Erkenwald, whose sister, Aethelburg, was the first abbess. Destroyed by the Danes it was rebuilt in the 10th century. William the Conqueror stayed here after h...
Simon Bolivar - stone plaque
W1, Duke Street, 4
Simon Bolivar el libertador. The great Latin American statesman and patriot who liberated Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru & ...
Elizabeth Rusbridge (Gibbs)
Secretary and vice-president of the Old Greys' Association and pupil at the Grey Coat Hospital, 1933 - 1940. We take Gibbs to be her maiden name.
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