THE BRITISH OVERSEAS RAILWAYS HISTORICAL TRUST
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Kevin Jones' Steam Index
Biddle, Gordon
Britain's historic railway buildings: an Oxford gazetteer of structures
and sites. OUP. 2003. 759pp.
Includes extremely concise biographies of architects. The structure
is dictated by what is Listed (in confined meaning of that term): thus there
are some considerble gaps in the coverage and some rather strange entries.
Thus Truro, a city of some character, and with a pleasant if not spectacular
station, has an entry limited to stumps of an early viaduct. Welwyn Garden
City which lost an attractive station which matched the original new town
has no entry for that, but does have one for the White Bridge which no longer
crosses any railway line. Nevertheless, within its defined limitations
it is a very useful work. Reviewed
J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2003, 34, 486.
The British railway station (Railway History in Pictures
series) with Jeffrey Spence. David & Charles. 96pp illus. throughtou.
Reviewed by MLH (Michael
Harris) in Rly Wld, 1978, 39, 98
Billson, Peter
Derby and the Midland Railway. Breedon.149 pp,
Reviewed by John Edgington in
Backtrack, 1996, 10,
636 which notes that written by an architect
Binney, Marcus.
All change? BR's policy on architecture.
Railway Wld, 1978, 39,6-9.
Railway architecture with David Pearce, editors. London: Bloomsbury
Books, 1985 [first published by Orbis in 1979]. 256pp.
Clarke, Linda and John Ives, Stuart Rankin
and Paul Simons, on behalf of Roy Moorcroft, Chief Architect, BRB,
Aspects of Railway Architecture. Bristol Marketing Board on behalf
of BR, 64pp,
Reviewed in Rly Wld,
1985, 46, 575
Crump, Amyas
Great Western Railway architecture in colour. Vol 1. Buildings,
from Brunel to Beeching. . Manchester: Crecy Publishing, 2018.
176pp, 248 photoraphs, Reviewed by Matthew Searle in
J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2019,
36, 449
Fawcett, William
Railway Architecture (Shire Library). 2015. 64pp.
Not existent in Norfolk's sub-standard library (presumably mentions
train station in "City" of Norwich).Womderful little book which features
Wemyss Bay on its title page and has an excellent concise bibliography and
an index as well as highly informative illustrations and concise text. Book
may be small but captions are lengthy and informative.
Ives, John, Rankin, Stuart and others
Aspects of railway architecture
E-book available from Transport TreasuresThe Royal Institution of
British Architects celebrated its150th anniversary in 1984, and British
Rail decided to mark the occasion with an exhibition dealing with historic
and modern examples of railway buildings. The Regional Architect at
York, Norman Millin, was asked to oversee the project. A member of his staff,
John Ives, was jointly to curate the exhibition, with Stuart Rankin who had
written previously on the subject and had display and exhibition experience,
and was “loaned” by the Regional Public Affairs Department. Linda
Clarke, of the Architect’s Department was tasked with graphics and photo
captioning from text supplied to her. By coincidence, the City of Bristol
was also wanting to mount an exhibition celebrating the architectural work
of I. K. Brunel and the City’s restoration work on his original Bristol
Temple Meads station train shed. Paul Simons of the City’s Planning
Department therefore joined the project, taking responsibility for the sections
on Brunel’s work and Bristol.
Jenkins, Simon.
Britain's 100 best railway stations. Viking, 2017. 326pp.
Jenkin's five star stations are: Bristol Tempple Meads; Glasgow Central;
Liverpool Lime Street; London King's Cross; London Liverpool Street; London
Paddington; London St. Pancras; Newcastle Central; Wemys Bay and
York.
Reviewed by CH jn
Backtrack, 2018, 32, 574
This is the latest book from Simon Jenkins, which lists his favourite
railway stations. It continues a theme from earlier publications, which includes
England's 1,000 Best Churches, England's 1,000 Best Houses and England's
100 Best Views.
Jenkins is eminently qualified to produce a book which celebrates British
railway architecture, having served as a trustee of The Architecture Foundation
and a board member of both British Rail and London Transport. In 1984 he
founded the Railway Heritage Trust, persuading British Rail Chairman Sir
Bob Reid to fund the body to the tune of £1 million for five years.
The first 40 pages of the book are an introduction to the subject. Jenkins
touches on the days of 'Railway Mania', when a number of the great railway
stations featured in the book were constructed. He moves on through the years
to the mid-twentieth century, which he describes as the period of devastation.
The era of Beeching and the fanatical destruction of some of the country's
most important railway heritage, supported equally by Conservative and Labour
governments. He recalls his meetings with John Betjeman and other like-minded
souls who slowly moved opinion away from demolition to conservation and
restoration.
The book is then divided geographically with stations selected from the main
line, London Underground and Heritage Railways. London's major termini dominate,
but there is a sufficient spread of locations to prevent any suspicion of
southern bias. Each station's narrative includes at least one colour
photograph.Jenkins has relied on the work of Gordon Biddle for dates, architects
and general accuracy, but gaffs still occur. For example, he states that
Yorks station's 'York Tap' was built as a pub in 1906: wrong, it was a tea
room, a clue is in its location, Tea Room Square!
The author gives awards of stars to each station, which he states is now
the custom for public attractions. The stars are determined by his response
to each particular location. Maximum five stars go to ten stations, including
Bristol Temple Meads, Glasgow Central, St. Pancras, Paddington, York, Newcastle
and James Miller's wonderful Wemyss Bay. Strangely, Charles Holden's iconic
Southgate station on London's Piccadilly Line must have been giving really
bad vibes when Jenkins visited as he assesses it as one star!
The author breaks his rules by including two stations which are no longer
operational. The first Manchester Liverpool Road is now part of the Manchester
Museum of Science and Industry. He bemoans the fact that due to the museum
education officer's desperation to 'engage' young children the station is
bloodless. A charge some level against the National Railway Museum, also
part of the Science Museum Group. Secondly he includes the ex-Wolferton station
on the evidence of a one thousand signature petition to reopen the Hunstanton
branch.
On a more positive note there are glowing testimonials for new construction
and modernisation at St. Pancras and King's Cross and the sympathetic fit
to the original station fabric. He also congratulates work at George Osborne's
northern powerhouse figurehead, Manchester Victoria, including its connectivity
to the Manchester Arena, which was sadly in the news in 2017. During the
introduction Jenkins draws on John Schlesinger's 1961 film 'Terminus', describing
Waterloo station as living theatre as People Rush, People Work, People Wait.
So it is surprising that many of the book's photographs are completely devoid
of human activity, let alone trains! Consequently the images, though technically
excellent, become nothing more than a sterile record, lacking both scale
and drama.
This is an entertaining and informative book and will attract a wide audience.
Hopefully it will encourage railway traveller to confine their mobile phones
to their pockets and instead wonder at some of the most stunning railway
architecture in the world
KPJ has some reservations: 1. no Glasgow & South Western Railway stations
are listed in spite of James Miller's excellent station
at West Kilbride (he produced stations for all three of the major Scottish
railways) and W. Curtis Green's extraordinary streamlied
station at Girvan. 2. Includes Dolau — a sort of Welsh West Runton (much
loved by volunteers, but lttle used), but no building worthy of inclusion;
also Porthmadog given 3 stars but no named architect — why not Weybourne?
He states that Manchester Liverpool Road station (the original L&M terminus)
has Sir John Soane-like buildings, but there is no actual connection with
Soane.The book also trnsgresses outwith the steamindex period to include
very contemporary comment on architrectural revivals as at King's Cross and
Manchester Victoria: should John McAslan be included?
Lawrence, David.
British Rail designed 1948-97. Ian Alllan,
2016. 272pp.
Reviewed by Kevin Jones in
J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2017,
39, 119
Underground architecture. London: Capital Transport,
1994. 208pp.
Includes extensive biographical appendix which includes artists
Lloyd, David and Donald Insall
Railway station architecture. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1978.
60pp.
First published in Industrail Archaeology in August 1967 and reprinted
by David & Charles in 1967. David Lloyd contributed the main text and
Donald Insall contributed an examination of St. Pancras then under dire threat
of demolition and a quaint look at stations in the Wye Valley which he had
hoped could be transferred to the National Trust. Liverpool Street was then
under threat and Euston had gone with no hint of how it might have been saved.
Reviewed by CJL [C.J. Lake?] in
Railway World, 1978,
39, 394
Long, David
London Underground: architecture, design and history. with photographs
by Jane Magarigal. Stroud: History Press, 2018. 144pp.
Ovenden, Mark
London Underground by design. London: Penguin Books, 2013. 288pp.
Architects & designers
Allom, Sir Charles Carrick
Born in Kensington, London, on 16 June 1865. Died Potter's Bar, Middlesex
1 June 1947. Grandson of architect Thomas Allom and painter Thomas
Carrick. He was an eminent English decorator, trained as
an architect and knighted for his work on Buckingham Palace.
Among his American clients in the years preceding World War I was Henry
Clay Frick, for whom Allom furnished houses in cooperation with Sir Joseph
Duveen, the eminent paintings dealer. Allom furnished the Henry Clay
Frick House at 71st Street and Fifth Avenue that today houses
the Frick Collection, and the neo-Georgian house, "Clayton",
in Roslyn, Long Island, designed by Ogden Codman, Jr., that was
bought for Frick's daughter-in-law.[2] For the grand rooms of parade
in Frick's New York house, Sir Charles, whose London workshops produced
the plasterwork and boiseries, kept the furnishings muted, not to compete
with Frick's collection of paintings. In 1925, when William Randolph
Hearst purchased a real castle, St. Donat's in Wales, his choice
to furnish it naturally fell upon Sir Charles. The style generated by Allom,
White was distinctly old-fashioned. It appealed to Queen Mary, who was
a connoisseur of eighteenth-century English porcelain and furniture. And
when the Empress of Britain was launched the same year as
the "new" Waldorf-Astoria, among its modern Art Deco decors, the
"Mayfair Lounge" by White, Allom was the one space in Edwardian Renaissance
manner. The LNER employWhite Allom to decorate its triple articulated restaurant
cars for the Flying Scotsman: see
Locomotive Mag., 1928, 34,
268. (otherwise Wikipedia)
Andrews, George Townsend
1805-1855: architect of North Eastern Railway stations: see review
of superb book published by NERA in
Backtrack, 2012, 26, 510.
Biddle Victorian stations
pp. 56-60... Another
review by Gordon Biddle in J. Rly
Canal Hist. Soc., 2012, 58. See also
Hartley in Early main line railways
and Jenkins who includes some of his stations,
notably Beverley: Work displayed in Ives.
Ashbee, William Neville
Born in Gloucester in 1852; died on 30 April 1919. Joined
Edward Wilson & Co. in 1874 which at
that time was working on the Great Eastern Railway extension into Liverpool
Street. In 1883 he became the architect of the GER. Jenkins mentions his
involvement in Liverpool Street and gives special mention of Norwich, Ingatestone
(a too frequent London Parkway for Norwich trains), Hertford East, Wolferton
and Chapel & Wakes Colne where no trace of the station is shown, but
only a signal cabin (surely beneath his subject's dignity.
Banister, Frederick Dale
Born 15 March 1823 and baptised at St. Andrews Church in Holborn.
Family left London for Preston in Lancashire in 1830s and Fred was educated
at Preston Grammar School and then articled to John James Myres, a Preston
civil engineer. Jenkins lists Crystal Palace, the
exotic Eastbourne and Portsmouth & Southsea stations.
Banks, J.E.
Simon Jenkins includes Slough
station amongst his top hundred stations and states that J.E. Banks was its
architect. Vaughan surely is
incorrect in suggesting J.E. Danks?
Barnes, Frederick
Born in Hackney, London in 1814; died in Ipswich on 6 December 1898.
Educated at Christ’s Hospital School where his father was master. Articled
to architect Sydney Smirke (1798-1877) working in London, and then worked
in Liverpool for several years before coming to Ipswich in 1843 to assist
his friend John Medland Clark (1813-1849) on the new Custom House building.
In 1850 opened his own practice from 13 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich where
he lived with his wife. He later moved his office to Hatton Court and in
1888 had one of the largest architect practices in the town, his most notable
buildings were the railway stations which he designed for the Great Eastern
Railway in a Tudor Gothic style, the best of which survive are at Needham
Market, Stowmarket and Bury St Edmund's: this last according to
Jenkins also shows the work of Sancton
Wood..
Beattie, William Hamilton
Born 10 December 1842, son of an architect; died of a stroke on 29
November 1898. Architect of North British Hotel at Waverley station in Edinburgh.
Also designed Jenners department store and engineered the cable tramway
system.
Bell, P.E.
Chief Assistant Architect, British Railways Board: member of Natinal
Railway Museum Committee.
Railway Wld.,
1976, 37, 192
Bell, William
Born in York on 11 February 1844; died 5 October 1919. Chief architect
of the North Eastern Railway between 1877 and 1914 (when he retired to Whitley
Bay). Jenkins' accolades go out to Darlington, Hull,
extensions to Newcastle Central and at York and Tynemouth. Online adds Alnwick
now serving as an eccentric secondhand bookshop.
Bonomi, Ignatius Richard Frederick Nemesius
Born in London on 31 October 1787 and died in Wimbledon on 2 January
1870. Baptised in the Sardinian Chapel in London. Main work in County Durham
where he became Surveyor of Bridges for the County in 1824. George Stephenson
brought him in to design the Skerne Bridge: one of the first railway bridges
in the UK (over the River Skerne, near Darlington), for the Stockton and
Darlington Railway, (hence he is sometimes referred to as 'the first railway
architect'). See Hartley
in Early main line railways
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel also has a page to
himself, but this paragraaph is limited to his rather
strange architectural style. See Ives where he receives
considerable attention
Couves, L.J
Architect of Newcastle Metro station at Jesmond commended along with
other Metro stations (but not illustrated) by
Jenkins.
Culverhouse, Percy Emerson
Born 20 August 1871; died 7 May 1953. Chief Architect Great Western
Railway 1929–1945. When 21 he was registered as a clerk at Paddington
Station, working for the Great Western Railway. He progressed to Architectural
Assistant to the New Works Engineer and in April 1929 was appointed Chief
Architect to the Great Western Railway. He retired in September 1945 and
was succeeded by Brian Lewis. The concourse of Cardiff Central station of
1923-35 receives commendation from Jenkins who also
suggests that the art deco style at Leamington Spa station may be due to
his influence.
Curtis, Frederick Francis Charles duplicate
entry
Born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1903; died 1975. Came to Britain in
1933 and worked for Southern Railway. Moved to Adams, Holden & Pearson
in 1936 and in 1947 replaced Brian Lewis as Architect on the GWR;became Chief
Architect of the Western Region; then for British Railways. Architect to
British Transport Commission. Held a doctorate. Responsible for Central Line
extension stations at Hanger Lane, Perivale and Greenford.
Ovenden. Lawrence Paper: Railway
architecture in Instn Civ. Engrs Proc: Engineering Divisions,
1954, 3,172 –82 [greedy "Charity" charges £24 for copy of
this paper]. Succeeded by Kaukas..
Dawes, William
Manchester architect responsible for the 1909 frontage and offices
for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway at Victoria Station. Following
a major reconstruction which included a new tram station it received three
stars from Jenkins
Dawson, J. Crosbie
Architect of Preston station (better known for a ghastly bus station).
See Jenkins and see Jeffrey Wells who spells Crosby
and omits "J". Preston Station in the news, 1869-1896,
Backtrack, 2022, 36,
528
Dobson, John duplicate
entry
Born on 9 December 1787 at Chirton near North Shields in Northumberland.
Died in his home at 15 New Bridge Street, Newcastle on 8 January 1865. Plaque
in main entrance to Newcastle Central station (his masterpiece) see
Humm J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc.,,
2015, 38, 252... ODNB entry by T.E.
Faulkner. Excellent concise biography
by Gordon Biddle in Oxford Companion, usual thorough biography by
R.W. Rennison in Chrimes. Highly pertinent,
if somewhat rambling, comment by
Christian Barman.
Dobson, who inspired but did not design the Newcastle portico as we now see it, had absorbed the grand tradition in the office of Sir Robert Smirke, but Vanbrugh was another powerful influence. Within two years of his return to Newcastle he was engaged on the restoration of Seaton Delaval for Sir Jacob Astley after the great fire; it was one of his first commissions. By a rare coincidence, one of his last was concerned with the same building; a later owner, Lord Hastings, called him into consultation when more work had to be done after a second fire. Newcastle Central station is his acknowledged masterpiece; the circumstances in which this building came to be finished by another hand makes it also a memorial of one of the great personal tragedies in our architectural history. Dobson, when he was working out the de- sign for the York, Newcastle & Berwick and the Newcastle & Carlisle railways, foresaw inevitable developments and combina- tions in railway operation and planned his station accordingly. The directors made him reduce the size of his building. The walls were halfway up when they decided to transfer their head office from York to Newcastle; enlargements had to be hurriedly improvised and the great portico had to be omitted. It was added many years later, during Dobson's last, fatal illness, by Thomas Prosser, the architect of Leeds (1869) and York ( 1877) stations The design is manifestly inferior to Dobson's own; no wonder an obituary notice speaks of his 'grief and disappointment' as he lay dying. The place of Newcastle Central in English railway architecture is great and assured; with Dobsori's own portico it would have stood in the front rank with the best of all our public buildings.
Drabble, James
Architect of Worksop station (Jenkins);
Driver, Charles Henry
Born 23 March 1832; died 27 October 1900, at the age of 68.
He was a recognised authority on ornamental cast ironwork. He began his career
as a draughtsman in the office of Frank Foster, Engineer to the Commissioners
of Sewers, London. From 1852 to 1857, he filled a similar position with Messrs.
Liddell and Gordon, under whom he was engaged on designs for bridges and
stations on the Leicester and Hitchin Railway. He was next, from 1860 to
1863, a draughtsman in the Engineer's Office of the London and Brighton Railway,
under R. Jacomb-Hood. From 1864 to 1866, he assisted the late Sir Joseph
Bazalgette, Past-President, in preparing designs for the masonry of the landing
stages and the ornamental masonry of the Thames Embankment, and for the
Pumping-stations at Abbey Mills and Crossness. From 1873 to 1892, he assisted
the late Sir James Brunlees. McKerrow in preparing designs for King's Lynn
Bridge, Clifton and other stations, and Llandudno, Nice and Southend Piers.
From 1882 to 1894, he assisted Sir Douglas Fox, Past-President, and Mr. Francis
Fox in preparing designs for Preston Station on the West Lancashire Railway,
and for Southport and other stations on the Cheshire lines extension; between
1868 and 1870, he assisted Edward Woodsin preparing designs for Santiago
Market, and stations on the Boca and Ensenada Railway; and from 1894 to 1895,
he assisted A.C. Pain in preparing designs for stations on the Tottenham
and Forest Gate Railway. Amongst other things, he designed for the late Mr.
R. P. Birch the West Pier Pavilion at Brighton, and during the past three
years acted as Architect for the stations (including the Main Central Station)
on the Sao Paulo Railway, under the direction of the Consulting Engineers
to the Company, D.M. Fox and A. Mckerrow, and James Pforde. Stations: Battersea
Park, Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Bexhill & Westhhumble and Wellingborough
(Jenkins).
Edis, Robert
Architect of the Great Central Hotel, later Headquarters of British
Transport Commission but since restored as luxury hotel
(Jenkins). Born in Huntingdon on 13 June 1838. Educated
Huntingdon Grammar School and Aldenham School. Architect of Great Eastern
Hotel at Liverpool Street station
Backtrack, 1996, 10, 144.
Died at Grreat Ormesby in Norfolk on 23 June 1927. Member of the Aesthetic
Movement and Colonel of the Artists Rifles and portrayed by Spy as Architect
Militant (mainly Wikipedia)
Elmslie, Edmund Wallace
Great Malvern station (Jenkins). linked to
the Imperial Hotel by a tunnel known as The Worm (all by Elmslie who was
born in about 1818 and died in 1889: Internet). Source of funds Jamaican
sugar plantations
Forsyth, William
Great Malvern station (Jenkins). remarkable
floral ironwork featuring leaves
Jenkins). Born in Kelso in about 1834; son
of a mason who died in the 1840s. Set up as a sculptor in Worcester in the
1850s. Stone carvings at Chichester Cathedral. Died 5 June 1915..
Foster, John
Born in 1786; died in 1846. Studied under Jeffry Wyatt in London.
In 1809 travelled in Eastern Mediterannean and 1810-11 accompanied C.R. Cockerill
and two German archaeologists to Aegina and Bassae to study the temples.
Designed the Moorish arch installed at Edge Hill on the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway. See > Hartley in
Early main line railways
Foster, Norman Robert
Canary Wharf station (Jenkins). Born 1 June
1935 in Reddish (Stockport). International architect: the Gherkin (30 St.
Mary Axe)
Fripp, Francis Charles
Born 3 June 1812 in Rainham, Kent. Died in Bristol on 9 February 1882.
Architect of Bristol & Exeter Railway's headquarters in Bristoll
(Jenkins)
Fry, Edwain Maxwell (duplicate entry)
Born in Liscard, Merseyside on 2 August 1899; died 3 September 1987.
Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School; served in the King's Liverpool
Regiment at the end of the First World War. After the war he received an
ex-serviceman's grant that enabled him to enter Liverpool University school
of architecture in 1920, where he was trained in "the suave neo-Georgian
classicism of Professor Charles Reilly.The curriculum of the course included
town planning as an important component, and Fry retained an interest in
planning throughout his career. He gained his diploma with distinction in
1923. The next year he worked for a short time in New York before returning
to England to join the office of Thomas Adams and F. Longstreth Thompson,
specialists in town planning.His next post was chief assistant in the architect's
department of the Southern Railway, where in 1924-6 he was architect of three
neo-classically styled railway stations, at Margate, Ramsgate and Dumpton
Park. He then changed his style to modernism and achieved considerable success,
but does not appear to have designed any further railway structures. On his
retirement in 1973, Fry and his wife moved from London to a cottage in
Cotherstone, County Durham, where he died in 1987 at the age of 88.
Murray Tremellen. Backtrack, 2022,
36, 292.
Glendinning, Max
With W.R. Headley designed Oxford Road
station in Manchester from laminated timber using a conoid structure.
Jenkins; Lawrence.
Grayson, George Enoch
Born 7 June 1833; died 7 November 1912. Liverpool architect:
Hamilton Square Birkenhead for the Mersey Railway selected by
Simon Jenkins
Green, Benjamin
Baptised on 15 February 1913 in Horsley, Northumberland; son of John
Green, an architect. Pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin and the became a partner
of his father. Died in Dinsdale Park on 14 November 1858.
(Peter Leach in ODNB).
Gordon Biddle (Victorian
stations pp. 69-71) devotes a section to him and considers that some
of the smaller stations on the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway may have
been his designs. The stations on the Newcastle & Berwick Railway were
his work with Tweedsmouth being his chef d''oeuvre according to Biddle.
Hartley in Early main
line railways notes that had used laminated timber arches on the
Newcastle & North Shields Railway in 1839. Hexham receives a single star
from Jenkins (a view without a shack on the track Pacer
might have been better, but his Tynemouth three star station photograph is
almost too gaudy! See also Darby Early
railway prints page 34.
Green, William Curtis
Born on 16 July 1875 in Alton; died 25 or 26 March 1960 in London.
Designed Girvan station for LMS in late 1930s, but station not completed
until 1951 when was a late example of the moderne style. Not in Jenkins
Grimshaw, Nicholas
Born in Hove on 9 October 1939. Educated at Wellington College, Edinburgh
College of Art and Architectural Association School of Architecture. Waterloo
International Station was the magnificent British terminal for Eurostar services
and opened in 1994 and closed in 2007. Jenkins mentions
the wasted structure but does not illustrate it
Hadfield, Matthew Elison
Born 8 September 1812; died 9 March 1885. Practice formed with John
Gray Weightman which lasted from 1838 to 1858. Gothic revival. Major works
include St. John's Cathedral in Salford and Wicker Viaduct in Sheffield where
practice located. Hartley
in Early main line railways
Hamlyn, Willaim Henry
Born in Wigan on 16 February 1883; died in Devon in 1969. Trained
under Reginal Wynn Owen in Liverpool and then at the Royal Academy
School. Joined LNWR in 1911 and in 1934 appointed chief architect of LMS.
Plans for a new Euston in 1936 which remained unfulfiiled. Rebuilt concourse
at Leeds City station and adjoining Queen's Hotel. Also Derby LMS School
of Transport (see Maxwell Craven J.
Rly Canal Hist. Soc. 2017 (230), 156 and
Locomotive Mag., 1938, 44,
234) There are/were murals by Norman Wilkinson and by Hamlyn, Hoylake
station and prefabricated structures installed at Queen's Park and at Bootle
New Strand and oddest of all work at the Prestatyn Holiday Camp. He retired
in 1949.
Hardwick, Philip
Born in London on 15 June 1792; died 28 December 1870. Architect noted
for his magnificent Grecian Doric portico at Euston station which were wantonly
demolished in 1963. He also designed the Curzon Street terminus of the London
& Birmingham Railway in Birmingham. The Great Hall at Euston was also
designed by him, but ill health led to it being completed under his son (below).
Biddle in Oxford Companion and
Hartley in Early main
line railways
Hardwick, Philip Charles
Born in 1822 (son of Philip above); died 1892. See above, but also
architect of Great Western Royal Hotel at Paddington.
Biddle in Oxford Companion
Hardy, Sydney
Born in Castleford in 1923. Assistant to N.R. Paxton from 1941 to
1942. Assistant architect to West Riding County Council 1951-3. Joined North
Eastern Region in 1954 and was Regional Architect 1916-1974. Chief Archtect
London Transport, 1974-81. Lawrence (includes
portrait) . Ovenden
Harris, Rodney
Assiisted James Robb Scott on Southern Railway see
Murray Tremellen. Backtrack, 2022,
36, 292. Internet showa sculptures carved into brickwork on flats
in Peabody St John's Hill Estate in Clapham, London.
Headley, W.R. (Bob)
With Max Glendinning designed Oxford Road
station in Manchester from laminated timber using a conoid structure.
Jenkins; Lawrence.
See also photograph of Headley with
Sir Brian Robertson and model of Coventry station. Chelford station.
Backtrack, 2020, 34,
306
Heaps, Stanley Arthur
Born 1880; died 1962. Architect responsible for design of several
stations on the London Underground system including Maida Vale and Kilburn
and on the Edgware extension as well as the train depots. Osterley receives
great commendation from Ovenden. Heaps retired 1943.
Lawrence (portrait). Taylor
with another portrait
Hill, Oliver Falvey
Born in Kensington, London on 15 June 1887; died 23 April 1968.. Articled
to William Flockhart between 1907 and 1910. Greatly influence by Edward Lutyens.
Designer of country houses. Designed highly regarded Midland Hotel at Morecambe.
Appointed consulting architect for the LNER lines in Essex being taken over
by London Transport, but only development is the bus station at Newbury
Park
Holden, Charles Henry duplicate
entry
Born 12 May 1875 at Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire; died in his home
at 87 Harmer Green Lane, Welwyn on 1 May 1960. His childhood was unsettled
by the bankruptcy of his father, and then by the death of his mother in 1883.
He went to school in St Helens where his father, trained as a fitter and
turner, had found work. In April 1892 Charles Holden was articled to Everard
W. Leeson, a Manchester architect, and during his articles he attended Manchester
School of Art (1893-4) and Manchester Technical School (1894-6), where he
was an outstanding student. During these formative years he made lasting
friendships, especially with the artist Muirhead Bone, and found inspiration
in the writings of Walt Whitman. Holden's domestic life was always simple,
even austere, and he approached his architectural work in an unaesthetic,
increasingly impersonal way.
With his articles completed, Holden worked for Jonathan Simpson in Bolton
from 1896 to 1897 and then moved to London, where he worked for about a year
for the arts and crafts architect C.R. Ashbee. In about 1898 Holden began
living with Margaret Steadman (1865-1954), wife of a Scottish schoolteacher
whom she never divorced, but with Holden she enjoyed a long and loving
relationship, although they had no children. They lived at first in Norbiton,
moved to Codicote in Hertfordshire, in 1902 then to Harmer Green, where Holden
designed their house. Their way of life combined spirituality, ruralism,
and social responsibility. Holden attended the Quaker meeting-house in Hertford,
and commuted daily to London.
In October 1899 he joined the practice of H. Percy Adams as chief assistant.
Adams specialized in hospital design. Holden won the competition for the
Central Reference Library, Bristol (1903–6), with drawings done in his
spare time. Its happy relationship with the cathedral and the adjoining
eleventh-century gateway, its dramatically simple rear elevation, and its
long freedom from structural defects were remarkable achievements for one
so young. In 1907 he entered into partnership with Adams, and works of this
time include the British Medical Association at 429 Strand, London (1906–8;
now Zimbabwe House), and the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1909–12). During
the First World War, Holden served with the London ambulance column, and
then with the directorate of graves registration and enquiries in France.
In 1920 he was appointed one of the Imperial War Graves Commission's principal
architects for France and Belgium, alongside Reginald Blomfield, Herbert
Baker, and Edwin Lutyens. Over the next eight years he and his assistant
architects, notably W.C. von Berg and W.H. Cowlishaw, were responsible for
the layout and buildings of sixty-seven cemeteries. Holden's cemetery buildings
demonstrate his love of Portland stone and the growing simplification of
his work: they are on the whole more severe than those of his colleagues,
and their reticence is moving. Between the wars Holden's practice was known
as Adams, Holden, and Pearson—Lionel Pearson had become a partner in
1913. ‘C.H.’, as Holden was known in the office, was a shy, meticulous,
kindly employer, and he had the loyalty of his staff. But he stood rather
apart from his partners because so much of his time went on two large but
very different projects: for the London Underground and for the University
of London. By this time his designing was no longer eclectic. For both clients
he designed austerely detailed, geometrical masses, in a style which aimed
not to be a style.
Gordon Biddle (Oxford Companion)
aptly states that "it was an inspired choice to appomt Holden; for first
the Underground Group, and then after 1933 to the London Passemger Transport
Board" The work for the London Underground was done in the name of the coherent
system of public transport which the chairman,
Lord Ashfield, aimed to create out of
a tangle of existing networks—and in the name of modernity, the special
concern of Ashfield's assistant Frank Pick.
In the mid-1920s Holden designed façades for stations on the Northern
Line extension from Clapham South to Morden: spare, Portland-stone frames
that could be bent, like a screen, to suit different sites. In the 1930s,
following a short study tour of transport architecture in northern Europe,
he designed complete stations at either end of the Piccadilly Line: flat-roofed
structures in brick and concrete, quiet, rational, and distinctly modern.
Arnos Grove (1932) is the best-known. He also designed equipment and furniture,
working towards a coherent visual identity for the underground. When he was
elected a royal designer for industry in 1943, it was for transport equipment.
Between these two phases came the headquarters of the London Underground,
55 Broadway (1926–9), also part of Ashfield's campaign for unification.
A tall, steel-framed building with the upper storeys stepped back in the
American manner, 55 Broadway rose with easier grace and to a greater height
than any of its contemporaries, and earned Holden the London architecture
medal in 1929.
In 1931 Holden was commissioned to design the University of London's central
building in Bloomsbury. The university wanted a tower, partly to give a sense
of identity to the many departments scattered over Bloomsbury. Holden designed
an immense building facing onto Malet Street between Montague Place and
Torrington Place, with a long spine on the axis of the British Museum, towers
at either end, and lower wings between the spine and the street. The university
could not afford to build this scheme, and in 1932 Holden reduced it to its
southern part, which forms the present Senate House, plus individual buildings
placed around the edge of the site to the north. It was still ambitious,
a tower 215 feet high with space for 950,000 books on an internal steel frame.
The rest of the building was of traditional masonry because Holden could
not trust steel to last the centuries he and his clients planned for the
building.
Holden's buildings display the work of many notable sculptors, including
Eric Gill and Henry Moore, but he is chiefly associated with the controversial
figure of Jacob Epstein, whose unidealized, partly clothed figures on the
British Medical Association building caused a public uproar. This only confirmed
Holden in his view that Epstein was a raw, Whitmanic genius, and he employed
him again at 55 Broadway, with more uproar. He wished that Epstein's work
could have graced the sides of Senate House. During the last decade of his
working life Holden was mainly concerned with town planning and reconstruction.
Between 1944 and 1946 he reported on the reconstruction of Canterbury with
H.M. Enderby, and of the City of London with William Holford. In 1947 he
was commissioned by the London County Council to prepare a scheme for the
layout of buildings on the South Bank between County Hall and Waterloo Bridge,
to supersede the planning sketch of the area included in the wartime county
of London plan. Mainly from ODNB entry
by Charles Hutton, revised Alan Crawford. Lawrence.
Jenkins is mean in his coverage only including
Southgate (jaded comment) and Gants Hill Ovenden is vastly
better (but the illustrations are small).
Hunt, Sir Henry Arthur
Born in Westminster in September 1810; died on 13 January 1899. Trained
as surveyor before setting up his own civil engineering practice in 1828.
Hunt worked for Sir Charles Barry on the design of the Houses of Parliament,
a large number of railway companies including the lines of the London Brighton
and South Coast Railway, Eastern Counties Railway and the Metropolitan Railway
in London. He managed the estate of the Commissioners of the Great Exhibition
of 1851 in South Kensington and the London property of the Dean and Chapter
of Westminster and of St. Paul’s. He was briefly a member of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, elected as their representative by the Vestry
of St George Hanover Square in December 1855. In March 1856 he was appointed
consulting surveyor to the Office of Works, and resigned from the board.
He held the Office of Works post until 1886. He was largely responsible for
acquiring the site and overseeing the construction of the Royal Courts of
Justice. He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1871 and knighted in 1876.
He was an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of
the Surveyors Institution. Stoke-on-Trent station is awarded three stars
by Jenkins. Biddle claims that
Winton Square which fronts the station was the only piece of town planning
undertaken by a railway company to set off its station. Fell Stoke
station, Backtrack, 2020,
34, 625.
Ionides, Basil
Born on 20 June 1884; died in Brighton on 28 September 1950. Educated
at Tonbridge School and studied at Glasgow School of Art 1900-1903 whilst
serving his articles with Alexander Nisbet Paterson. The double villa in
Winton Drive, Glasgow was designed when he was only eighteen and barely halfway
through his apprenticeship. On completion of his apprenticeship in 1904 or
1905 he moved to London where he joined the office of Leonard Stokes,
subsequently spending a short time with Harold Ainsworth Peto before commencing
independent practice in 1908. During WW1 he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve, and received a commission but relinquished it as he did not like
giving orders to more experienced men and returned later as an ordinary seaman.
He was disabled in 1917 and continued to practise, initially mainly carrying
out interior work. He became an important Art Deco designer: the interior
of Houslow West for the Underground Group was his design. Intrernet and
Ovenden.
James, Charles Holloway
Born in Gloucester on 22 January 1893; died 8 February 1953. Articled
to W.B. Wood. Assistant in office of Sir Edwin Lutyens then with Barry
Parker & Raymond Unwin. Lost a leg during WW1. After he went into practice
with H.R. Thompson and later with C.M. Hennell. Housing in Letchworth and
Welwyn Garden City where his influence was visible in former home of KPJ.
Worked on Bounds Green and Enfield West (now Oakwood) Piccadilly Line
stations. His most important buildings are Norwich City Hall and County Hall
in Hertford. Lawrence plus online sources.
Kaukas, Bernard
Born born in Hackney on 30 July 1922; educated at St Ignatius College,
Stamford Hill. died 2 May 2014. During WW2 he spent a brief period as a
firefighter in the London Blitz before joining the Royal Navy and serving
on HMS Douglas. After the war, he studied architecture at the Northern
Polytechnic Institute in London, and worked briefly for two county council
departments before going into private practice. In 1959 he moved to the British
Transport Commission. In 1968 he succeeded Frederick Francis
Charles Curtis as chief architect to the British Railways Board and in
1977 their Director of Environment until he retired in 1982. Responsible
for saving the roof at St. Pancras station and restoring Queen Anne style
station building at Market Harborough
(see Rly World, 1978, 39,
494). He was succeeded as Chief Architect to British Railways by
Ray Moorcroft.
Livock, John William
Born on 30 July 1814 at Hampstead, and had ceased to practice by 1877
(Dawn Smith). According to
Biddle (Victorian stations
pp. 60-2) an important architect whose best work was on the Blisworth
to Peterborough line with stations at Northampton Bridge Street, Thrapston,
Oundle, Wellingborough London Road, Irthlingborough and Wansford. The line
opened in 1845. He was also responsible for stations on the Trent Valley
Line, notably at Tamworth, and on the southern section of the North Staffordshire
Railway. Died in London on 15 March 1883.
Hartley in Early main
line railways . See Baker
and Fell Rly Archive, 2013 (40) 2. and
Mathams and Barrett, Backtrack, 2014,
28, 4. Peter Butler The stations at Wellingborough
Backtrack, 2020, 34,
36.
Lloyd, Henry
According to Jenkins Exeter architect who
with Francis Fox was responsible for enlarging
Exeter St. Davids station which he unjustly awards 2 stars (station is difficult
to use by train operators and by the public: only Exeter Services somewhere
off M5 are worse)
McKean, Charles
Born in Glasgow in 1946, Educated at Fetts in Edinburgh, the Universirty
in Poitierr inn France and at the University of Bristol. Became Professor
of Architectural History at the University of Dundee where he came to love
the remaining Medieval builldings, notably St Mary's Tower and Gardyne's
Land.
Measures, Harry Bell
Born 1862; died 1940. Architect of Central London Railway stations,
also high value housing and social housing and Redford Cavalry Barracks in
Edinburgh. Many of his Central London Railway buidings have been demolished
during modernisation. Ovenden
Miller, James
Born in 1860 at Auchtergaven, Perthshire. Miller trained with local
architect Andrew Heiton, then in offices in Edinburgh. In 1888, he became
staff architect for the Caledonian Railway Company, designing stations and
hotels in the West of Scotland, e.g. Botanic Gardens Station, Glasgow (1894,
demolished 1970) and Wemyss Bay Station (1903-4). In 1888, he joined the
Caledonian Railway's Drawing Office in Glasgow, where he designed a number
of railway stations under the supervision of the engineer-in-chief, George
Graham, and his successor Donald Alexander Matheson. In 1892 he set up in
full-time practice on his own, renting an office at 223 West George Street,
Glasgow; where he continued to do work for the Caledonian Railway, as well
as other Scottish railway companies. In 1894 he gained commissions for stations
on the West Highland Railway. His work is also evident for the G&SWR
at West Kilbride station and in the Turnberry Hotel. In 1896, he designed
the exuberant St Enoch Square Underground Station. Winning the competition
for the 1901 Kelvingrove Exhibition buildings (1898), he became associated
with the sculptor Albert Hodge, employing him on the sculpture and plasterwork
for the Industrial Hall. Both their reputations were made and further joint
collaborations followed, including Caledonian Chambers, 75-95 Union Street
(1901-3), Clydebank Municipal Buildings (1902) and the former North British
Locomotive Company, 118 Flemington Street (1903-9). In 1907, Miller was awarded
the commission for rebuilding Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Miller designed the
palatial interiors for the RMS Lusitania. A remarkable late mansion
was constructed for Euan Wallace, sometime
Minister of Transport, at Kildonan near Barrhill in Ayrshire: this shows
similarities to Castle Drogo in Devon, but is at risk for lack of continuous
care. Latterly Miller lived in Stirling, at Randolphfield, and died there
on 28 November 1947. See also feature on Wemyss Bay station in
Rly Arch., 2009 (24) 19.
A colour photgraph of Wemyss Bay forms the book jacket for
Jenkins and is repeated inside with five stars. The
Glasgow Art Nouveau style is evident in some of his work.
Robert C. McWilliam in
Chrimes.
Moorcroft, Ray
Chief architect for British Rail post 1977: with Headley responsible
for new Euston, Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton and many other
structures now being rebuilt yet again! See
book reviewed in Rly Wld,
1985, 46, 575
Morgan, Guy
Assiisted James Robb Scott on Southern Railway see
Murray Tremellen. Backtrack, 2022,
36, 292. Born 1903; died 1987. Had worked in Lutyens' Office.
Website shows art deco flats, so probably involved in Chessington branch
structures.
Mulvany, John Skipton
Born: 1813 Died of cirrhosis in 1870. He was fourth son of the landscape
and figure painter Thomas James Mulvany. He received his professional training
with William Deane Butler. John, while still very young, was 'taken in hand
by some of the first nobility and commercial men in Ireland'. He had established
himself in private practice by 1836. In this year he received the commission
to design an extension to the hotel at Salthill, Monkstown, for the Dublin
& Kingstown Railway Company, and between 1837 and 1841 he designed stations
at Salthill, Blackrock and Kingstown for the same company. He was later to
be appointed architect to the Midland Great Western Railway Company at a
salary of £450 per annum,and to the Dublin Trunk Connecting Line. He
was also architect to the Dublin Board of Superintendence of City Prisons.
Many of his important domestic commissions came from members of the Malcomson
family of Portlaw. He was architect of Broadstone station in Dublin. Another
transport enterprise with which Mulvany was involved was the Dublin &
Kingstown Steam Packet Company, of which he was elected a director early
in 1863. Mulvany was singled out for praise by Albert Edward Richardson in
his Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during
the 18th and 19th centuries (1914). 'If any building expresses the character
of its purpose,' wrote of Broadstone station, 'it is this magnificent terminus,
which so well illustrates the application of the monumental manner in a spirit
of modernity.
Paley, Edward Graham
Born in Easingwold on 3 September 1823, son of the vicar;; died (from
typhoid) in Lancaster on 23 January 1895. Best known fior Cuurch of St. Peter
now Lancaster Cathedral. He was a director of the Lancaster Waggon Works
and architect of the Lancaster Carriage & Wagon Works. Very extensdive
Wikipedia entry (8 November 2018). Also Jenkins
rapturous entrry for Ulverston station.
Peachey, Willliam
Born in Cheltenham on 13 September 1826; died in Bromley-by-Bow on
2 March 1912. Architect to Stockton & Darlington Railway and also did
work for North Eastern Railway. Fawcett mentions him
in his book and more throughly on website. Middlesbrough station is probably
his most important work: see also Jenkins. Also designed
Zetland Hotel in Saltburn and Mexborough station.
Penson, Thomas Mainwaring
Born in 1817, son of an architect; died 1864. Employed by
Shrewsbury & Chester Railway for stations at Shrewsbury and Gobowen and
at Berwin on the preserved Llangollen Railway. Biddle
and Jenkins
Prosser, Thomas
Born in London in about 1817. His father, also Thomas, evidently worked
for Benjamin Dean Wyatt and his brother Philip, members of a noted architectural
dynasty. Philip was able but indolent, one of his few individual commissions
being the rebuilding of Wynyard Park, in County Durham, as a grand neo-classical
country residence for the third Marquess of Londonderry. The elder Prosser
moved north to supervise this work, which got underway in 1822, and remained
with the Marquess as estate surveyor and, in a minor way, architect. Prosser
senior died at Seaham on 24 February 1842. His son, Thomas Prosser was the
first architect permanently employed by the NER. being appointed on 1 December
1854, four months after the merger which brought the North Eastern Railway
into being. Prior to this, the companies which made up the NER had employed
architects in private practice, such as G.T. Andrews, John
Dobson and the Greens, or else made use of their engineering staff. After
the Hudson debacle of 1849, the need for economy made the latter course the
norm. Thus during 1849-53 the York & North Midland Railway relied on
their Engineer, Thomas Cabry, only turning to Andrews for works at York Station
and a modest hotel at Cattal.
The need for something different was seen by the NER Engineer in Chief,
Thomas Elliot Harrison, who did much to shape
the organisation of the new company. His initial proposal spoke of a 'clerk
of works' to supervise repairs and alterations to existing buildings, but
the concept was soon expanded into an architect, who could also handle a
full range of new works. It was evidently Harrison who brought Prosser to
the Board's attention, having encountered him serving as a clerk of works
on the construction of John Dobson's Newcastle Central Station. Prosser went
on to build up a substantial and effective office prior to his retirement,
due to ill health, in 1874. He was immediately answerable to Harrison and
the directors, and attended the meetings of their Locomotive & Works
Committee, which scrutinised all building proposals, however trivial. Harrison
and Prosser clearly enjoyed a good working relationship, the monument to
which is York Station, even though this was not completed until 1877, three
years after Prosser's departure. Prosser appears to have been the first architect
appointed to a permanent post by any British railway, and the office he developed
continued to serve the industry until the privatisation of British Rail in
1996. Fawcett
Richards, James Maude
Born in Carshalton on 13 August 1907. Educated at Gresham's School
in Holt and Cambridge University. Trained at the Architectural Association.
He published The Castles on the Ground (1946), a nostalgic but perceptive
social study of suburbs, illustrated by John Piper, one of his many artist
friends, but, as he recalled, 'The book was scorned by my contemporaries
as either an irrelevant eccentricity or a betrayal of the forward-looking
ideals of the Modern Movement'. His intelligent interest in historical
architecture was shown when he encouraged the founding of the Georgian Group
in 1937 and when he published his study of The Functional Tradition in
Early Industrial Buildings in 1958—the year in which he became a
founder member of the Victorian Society. He contríbuted an article
on station architecture in Design Magazine, No. 81 (via
Locomotive Mag., 1955,
61, 224. Richards joined the campaign to prevent the demolition
of the Euston Arch and was mortified when in 1961 the editor of The
Times, Sir William Haley, published a leading article arguing that it
was not worth saving. He became increasingly frustrated with the newspaper,
and was not disappointed when his contract was terminated in 1971. He died
following a stroke on 27 April 1992 (mainly ODNB)
Scott, James Robb duplicate
entry
Born on 11 February 1882 in Gorbals, Glasgow, illegitimate son of
Andrew Robb Scott (architect); died 1965. He was articled to Leadbetter and
Fairley in Edinburgh and afterwards moved to Belcher and Joass in London
where he was promoted to chief architectural assistant. He joined the London
and South Western Railway in 1907. He is noted as the chief architectural
assistant in the period of the reconstruction of Waterloo Station between
1909 and 1923. The engineers J. W. Jacomb-Hood and Alfred Weeks Szlumper
had designed the roof and platforms. Scott was responsible for the office
range and the main entrance and War Memorial to the fallen employees of the
Railway known as the Victory Arch at Waterloo
(Jenkins);. Sometime early in the evolution of the
Southern Railway he was appointed Chief Architect and was responsible for
Ramsgate railway station 1925 (Jenkins); Bromley North
railway station 1925; Byfleet and New Haw railway station 1927; Dumpton Park
railway station 1928; Exmouth railway station 1929; Wimbledon railway station
1930; Wimbledon Chase railway station 1930; Hastings railway station 1931;
Bishopstone railway station 1936; Surbiton railway station 1937; Richmond
railway station 1938; Malden Manor railway station and other stations on
the new Chessington branch 1938/9 (see
also Archive Issue 103) and Horsham railway station 1938
(mainly Wikipedia) and responsible for a wide range of stations
from a fairly traditional style at Ramsgate to Art Deco at Wimbledon and
on the Chessington branch. See
Mel Holley: Fit for the purpose. Steam Wld, 2008 (249), 4-5. who
asserted died in 1940. Murray Tremellen. The career of James Robb Scott :
reassessing architectural practice on the Southern Railway.
Backtrack, 2022, 36,
292.
Shelmandine, Henry
Born 1856 in Liverpool; died 1935. Architect to LYR . Designed stations
at Blackburn and Liverpool Exchange both in 1888. The new Liverpool station
expanded to 10 platforms and required a second entry viaduct. He was also
responsible for several buildings in Horwich including tthe Mechanics Institute
(latter: Wells, Backtrack, 2023,
37, 40 which name of architect is misspelt)
Sherrin, George Campbell
Ovenden states that born in Essex (although
online sources list him as a "Scottish architect") in 1843 and died in London
in 1909. Worked on several Metropolitan Railway projects and Ovenden illustrates
arcade at South Kensington Lawrence (portrait) states
place of birth London.
Taylor, Harold
Architect of concrete carbuncle at Harrogate
see Joy Backtrack, 2022,
36, 598.
Thompson, Francis
Born at Woodbridge in Suffolk on 25 July 1808. Francis Thompson was
the architect of stations on the North Midland and Chester & Holyhead
Railways, including the noteworthy Chester Station and the masonry for the
Conway Tubular Bridge. He was also architect for several significant structures
in Canada. He died on 23 April 1895 back at Woodbridge.
Daunt Backtrack, 2012,
26, 317 states that was grandfather of Edward Thompson, CME, LNER.
See O. Carter: Francis Thompson...
Backtrack, 1995, 9, 213.
See also biography by John Rapley
in Chrimes pp. 775-7. Biddle
Victorian
stations. Hartley
in Early main line railways
Tite, [Sir] William duplicate
entry
Born in City of London on 7 February 1798. Articled to architect David
Laing and then set his own practice in 1824. Died in Torquay on 20 April
1873. The Royal Exchange in London was probably his most significant work.
Many important railway stations, notably for London & Southampton Railway
and Lancaster & Carlisle Railway. See
Biddle, Gordon Sir William Tite and railways. Part 1. Backtrack, 2008,
22, 530-6. and Part 2
Backtrack, 2008, 22, 630-5. Biddle also contributed the
Tite entry in Chrimes and Tite's
own section in Victorial stations
pp.
62-7.
>ODNB biography by S.P.
Parissien. Hartley in Early
main line railways. Tite stations included in
Jenkins: Battle; Windsor & Eton Riverside;
Huddersfield, Carlisle, Penrith and Perth. Illustrations and captions of
Lancaster station in Backtrack,
2022, 36, 282.
Trubshaw, Charles duplicate
entry
Charles Trubshaw came from an architecural family. He was born in
1841, the son of an architect, who was also called Charles and was educated
by him His father was the architect and surveyor to the County of Stafford.
He became an ARIBA in 1865 and worked for the LNWR until in 1874 when he
became the Architect of the Northern Division of the MR. Both Hellifield
and Skipton stations were designed by him. The magnificent Midland Hotel
in Manchester followed a visit to the USA with William Towle the Midland
Railway Hotels' Manager. According to Biddle
Britain's historical railway buildings Trubshaw was responsible
for architecture on the whole of the MR between 1884 and 1910. The latter
is contrary to Dixey who stated that he retired in 1906. The hotel
and station at Bradford Forster Square were also his work. Leicester London
Road Station is probably his best survivng work (see
Jenkins). He died in Derby on 15 February 1917.
Charles Trubshaw: a Victorian railway
architect. S. John Dixey. Bedside Backtrack, 65-8. Hellifield
station was built to his design
Backtrack. 2021, 35,
367
Uren, Reginald Harold
Borin in March 1888 in New Zealand and of Cornish descent. Went to
London in 1930 where he became noted for his designs for public buildings
and won the RIBA London Architecture Bronze Medal. Buildings include Hornsey
Town Hall and Norfolk County Hall. He submitted a design for Finchley Central
station, but it was not built, leaving only Rayners Lane station as his
contribution to Underground architecture.
Lawrence
Weightman, John Gray
Born at Bawtry on 29 March 1809; died Collingham 9 December 1872.
Partnership with Hadfield. Natable buildings Collegiate School Sheffield,
now University main building, St Mary Mulberry Street (Hidden Gem) in Manchester
and many railway stations including at Glossop, Louth, Holton-le-Clay and
Ludborough. Hartley in Early
main line railways .
Wild, James William
Born 9 March 1814 in Lincoln; died on 7 November 1892. Architect who
initially worked in the Gothic style, but later employed round-arched forms.
He spent several years in Egypt. He acted as decorative architect to the
Great Exhibition of 1851, and designed the Grimsby Dock Tower, completed
in 1852 After a considerable break in his career he worked on designs for
the South Kensington Museum, and designed the British embassy in Tehran.
He was curator of the Sir John Soane's Museum from 1878 until his death in
1892. Hartley in Early main
line railways notes the Hydraulic Tower and includes a photograph
of it.
Wood, Sancton duplicate
entry
Born April 1815 in Hackney. Educated at a small private school in
Devon, and then moved to a school at Hazelwood, Birmingham, run by T.W. Hill
whose son Rowland Hill (1795-1879) was author
of the penny postal system. The school was run ‘To leave as much as
possible, all power in the hands of the boys themselves’ a philosophy
that failed to stimulate young Sancton Wood into serious study. Nevertheless
his interest in drawing and family influence gained him a pupillage in the
office of his cousin Sir Robert Smirke RA (1780-1867), followed by employment
with Sydney Smirke RA (1798-1877). His contemporaries recalled his quiet
retiring nature, sometimes excitable, but always courteous. Wood's classical
training in architecture and presentation, learned in Smirke's office, gained
him early recognition. In 1837 he designed one of London's first railway
termini, at Shoreditch for the Eastern Counties Railway. Budget restraint
limited the scope of work, but success in competitions followed, beginning
with a prize for Ipswich station. Then in 1845 he headed a field of sixty-five
competitors for the design of Kingsbridge terminus and company offices, Dublin
(now known as Heuston station). The magnificent two-storey office block,
nine bays wide by five bays deep, is dominated by attached Corinthian columns
between the first-floor pedimented windows. The enclosing single-storey wing
walls to the platforms are linked to the office block by an intervening domed
turret at each corner. In 1846 he won the £100 prize for Blackburn station.
Links with Irish railways led to further work for the Great Southern and
Western, between Dublin and Cork, and the Limerick Junction line. Other railway
commissions included stations on the Rugby and Stamford line (1846), and
Syston and Peterborough route (1847). Jenkins argues
that Sancton Wood had a hand in the design of the station at Bury St Edmunds,
and possibly in Cambridge station and certainly in Stamford. Wood was elected
an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1841, an associate
of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1848, and an associate of the
Institution of Surveyors, also in 1848. Commercial buildings, schools, churches,
and estate development, principally in the London area, were credited to
him. In 1850 Wood, his wife, and their two sons moved to 11 Putney Hill,
London, a detached house of his own design where Wood died on 18 April 1886.
From ODNB entry Oliver F.J. Carter
Oxford Companion entry by Gordon
Biddle.
Wyatt, Benjamin
Born 1745; died 1818. Designed many of the buildings in Bangor, North
Wales and the Penrhyn Railroad
Wyatt, Sir Digby duplicate
entry
Born on 20 July 1820 near Devizes. Involved both with the original
Crystal Palace and its reconstruction at Sydenham. Responsible for the decorative
ironwork in Paddington Station and the extension of Bristol Temple Meads.
Appointed architect to the Council of India in 1855 and responsible for the
ironwork on three major railway bridges there. Died on 21 May 1877 at Dimlands
Castle, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan in 1877.
Steven Brindle in Chrimes and Paul
Waterhouse, revised John Martin Robinson in
ODNB Also
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