Museum curator and architectural historian. Born John Newenham Summerson at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art, and had professorships at Oxford and Cambridge. Curator at Sir John Soane's Museum from 1945 to 1984. His many publications include 'Georgian London'. Knighted in 1958. Died at his home, 1 Eton Villas, Chalk Farm. If you like Georgian architecture you have to read Summerson.
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Sir John Summerson
Sir John Summerson, 1904 - 1992, architectural historian lived here from 1949...
Architect active 1927 and 1937. An Alan Brace was the architect for Rio Tinto Company Limited and carried out work for them in south west Spain, though if this was in the late 1800s, then he was ei...
Appointed Surveyor/Engineer for the Borough of Camberwell c.1898. William Oxtoby was born on 7 February 1862 in Hull, Yorkshire. He was the fourth of the five children of Robert Oxtoby (1823-1874)...
The upper storey of the west tower was added in 1841 to enable a peal of eight bells to be installed. The picture shows the tower in 1810, pre-works.
Bethnal Green Borough Engineer/Architect in 1922, 1926, 1937.
Architect, teacher and writer. Born Chelsea. Awarded O.B.E. 2002. Died Pembury, Kent
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...
DrinkingFountains gives two pictures from the 'Illustrated London News' of this fountain when it was originally installed. From a close e...
This Peace Garden, opened on 27 March 2011, commemorates the 1944 V1 bomb, the people who died, the church that was destroyed and the sub...
Son-in-law to Agatha Christie, being the second husband of her only child Rosalind.
101 Farm Lane This site was first developed in the 1890s as a horse bus company depot. It was then used by various motor bus companies an...
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