Alfred W. Blomfield

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The Bedford, 2008

Alfred W. Blomfield (1879-1949) was a British architect, who worked as the in-house architect for the brewer Watney Combe & Reid from 1919 to 1940. [1]

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Early life

Alfred W. Blomfield was born in 1879. [2]

Career

In about 1931, he designed The Bedford, Balham is a Grade II listed pub at 77 Bedford Hill, Balham, London, for Watney Combe & Reid, in a "neo-Georgian manner, with Arts and Crafts and Art Deco influences". [2]

Blomfield was the architect of The French House, a pub at 49 Dean Street, Soho, London, built in 1937. [3]

Blomfield was the architect of the Dagenham Roundhouse, built in 1936. Nikolaus Pevsner calls it a "highly unusual design". [4]

His other designs included The Horns, Shoreditch (now a private club), the Mitre, Holland Park, the Mail Coach, Uxbridge Road (demolished), the Angel, Edmonton (demolished), and the World Turned Upside Down, Old Kent Road (now flats), all in London, and all featured in Architectural Design and Construction (1934). [2]

Death

Blomfield died in 1949. [2]

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References

  1. Lynn Pearson (February 2010). "Strategy for the Historic Industrial Environment The Brewing Industry" (PDF). A report by the Brewery History Society for English Heritage. english-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Historic England. "The Bedford Hotel (1427422)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  3. "Soho: A Pub Crawl". Lookingatbuildings.org. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  4. Bridget Cherry; Charles O'Brien; Nikolaus Pevsner (2005). London: East. Yale University Press. pp. 140–. ISBN   978-0-300-10701-2.