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Architectural firm. Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada Scottish Architects identify and give details on Wills and Anderson, respectively:

Herbert Winkler Wills (1864-1937)
Born Birmingham. Trained London 1882-87 and then worked there.  Moved to New York City. Moved to Vancouver 1892. Returned to London 1892 and opened his own office in Swansea, and was later in partnership with John Anderson (as Wills & Anderson), and after WWI, with William Kaula, as Wills & Kaula. Edited The Builder 1913-18, and The Architect & Contract Reporter 1918- c.26. Wills died in London, February 1937.

John Anderson (1872-1962)
1885 articled to Matthews & Mackenzie of Aberdeen. 1891 moved to London. He worked in partnership with Herbert Winkler Wills and Sir Thomas Edwin Cooper 1918-42. Resigned his RIBA membership in 1958, and died on 9 March 1962. His younger brother George Fordyce Anderson was also an architect in Aberdeen.

Victorian Turkish Baths have a 1906 plan drawn up by this firm for the site in Chelsea Manor Street where Chelsea Sports Centre is now (2023) situated, immediately behind the town hall. The building went ahead but to a much cut-back design.

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