H. E. and A. Bown

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H. E. and A. Bown
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Arthur Bown, in 1902
Practice information
Firm typeArchitectural partnership
Partners
  • Henry Edwin Bown (1845–1881)
  • Arthur Bown (1851–1916)
FoundedAfter 1868
Dissolved
  • 1881 as partnership
  • 1911 as company name
Location Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Significant works and honors
Buildings

H. E. and A. Bown was an architectural practice in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its two partners were Henry Edwin Bown who started the business and died at the age of 36, and his brother Arthur Bown, who carried on the business until he retired in 1911.

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The firm produced designs for many of Harrogate's villas, especially those in the West Park and Victoria Park estates, the Jubilee Memorial, Harrogate, and Queen's Park Lodge and fountain, Heywood, Greater Manchester, besides The Harrogate Club house, and Harrogate's drill hall. Many of their works are still standing, and the Jubilee Memorial and Queen's Park Lodge and fountain are listed buildings.

Background of the partners

The two partners of the architectural practice H. E. and A. Bown of Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, were brothers who came from an artisanal background, of Northern England and Midlands stock. Their paternal grandparents were jeweller Peter Bown (1791–1872) born in Matlock, Derbyshire, and Mary Fielding (1785 – 18 June 1881), [1] also from Matlock. [2] [3] Their parents were jeweller and china-dealer Edwin Bown (c.1823–1909), [4] [5] [nb 1] born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and Anne Bown (c.1823–1891), [4] [nb 2] from Skircoat Green, near Halifax, West Yorkshire. [6] Ann Bown is listed as an architect in the 1861 Census, however Henry Edwin was a 16-year-old apprentice architect by that time but is listed as a scholar, when boys were schooled up to age 14, so that may be a line-slippage error. [7]

Henry Edwin Bown

The elder brother was Henry Edwin Bown, who was born in Halifax on 26 March 1845, [8] [9] [nb 3] but spent his professional years in Harrogate. [10] In 1870 at Knaresborough, he married Sarah Margaret Husband (1849–1899), born in Batley, West Yorkshire, whose father was chemist and druggist James Husband of Batley. [8] [11] [nb 4] They had three children: architect Percival "Percy" Bown (1873–1953), [12] [nb 5] Frank (1876 – 8 June 1929) [13] and Kathleen Carr née Bown (born 1877), [14] all born in Harrogate. [15] H. E. Bown was a member of the Harrogate Horticultural and Floral Society, and would show his roses at its annual flower show: sometimes under the name of his gardener John Pinkney, sometimes under his own name. [16]

From 1877, during the last four years of his life, H. E. Bown spent much time away from his work, attempting relief from tuberculosis, in Bournemouth and Italy. [10] He died in Harrogate on 27 September 1881 after suffering a "long and trying illness". [10] [17] The funeral took place on 29 September, and he was buried in Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate, beside the family's vault where his grandfather Peter Bown lay. The funeral cortège was "headed by a number of gentlemen of the town". It travelled via Beech Grove from his home, Harlow View, to the cemetery, where many mourners had gathered with Rev. G. O. Brownrigg, who took the service. "The coffin (which was of polished oak and gilt furniture) was almost covered with wreaths, and bore upon the breastplate the following inscription: 'Henry E. Bown, died Sept. 27th, 1881, aged 36 years'". [10]

Sarah Margaret Bown, left with three young children, did not remarry; she died a widow in Boston Spa on 22 January 1899, aged 49 years. [18] The Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald said: [10]

To few men does Harrogate owe more than to the lamented [H. E. Bown]. Talented in his profession, endowed with consummate taste and enterprising spirit, he has devoted his life to the manifest improvement of his town, converting wild waste into cultivated order, and barren plots into beauty and fertility. [10]

Arthur Bown

The younger brother was Arthur Bown, who was born on 22 January 1851 in Harrogate. [4] [19] [20] [nb 6] He attended school at Knaresborough. [20] His father-in-law was in a trade complementary to his own, making decorative iron railings among other things. At Hick Lane Welseyan Chapel, Hick Lane, Batley on 29 December 1880 Arthur Bown married Jane "Janie" Bagshaw (1857–1917), [4] [21] [nb 7] whose father was Batley iron founder and engineer John Bagshaw (c.1828–1897) of Stockwell House, Batley. [4] [20] [nb 8] The couple honeymooned in Torquay. [22] One of their two children was Harrogate architect Harold Linley Bown (1883–1962). [4] [23] [nb 9] who in 1935 designed a cinema with frontages in Cambridge Road and Oxford Street and adjoining St Peter's Church, Harrogate (since demolished). [24]

Between 1891 and 1916, Arthur Bown's residence was "Hillstead", 11 Grove Road, Harrogate, West Yorkshire. [4] [20] Bown died in Harrogate on 3 July 1916. He was buried on 5 July in Grove Road Cemetery, [4] after a service at St Luke's Church, Harrogate. [25] He left £7,092 (equivalent to £511,569in 2021) gross. [26] [27]

Training, partnership and assistants

Training

Henry Edwin Bown was articled to architect Richard Dyson of Harrogate. In 1868 he was elected ARIBA, [8] "and early showed marked adaptability for his profession". He was then employed as an assistant to the architect William Hill of Park Square, Leeds. Subsequently, he founded his own practice in Harrogate, "where the high character of his work raised him to a position of importance". [10]

Having been "originally intended for an engineer", [20] Arthur Bown was apprenticed with a Mr Barron, C.E., of Leeds, then with Manning Wardle at Boyne Engine Works in Hunslet, Leeds. [nb 10] After that, he served two years as an improver at the architectural firm of J. Douglas Matthews in London. [4] Thereafter he "erected numerous public and private buildings". [20]

Partnership

Henry Edwin Bown started the practice alone under the name H. E. Bown from around 1868, working from Beulah House, Chapel Street, Harrogate (1868–1870), then Victoria Buildings, James Street, Harrogate (1871–1881). [8] [28] In 1877 Arthur Bown joined in partnership with his brother Henry as H. E. and A. Bown. [4] [20] [nb 11] Although the partnership was dissolved in 1881 after Henry died, [29] Arthur Bown continued under the original practice name until he retired in 1911. [4] The firm was still trading out of James Street in 1899. [30]

In 1895 Arthur Bown brought a case against engineer W. H. Baxter of Leeds, in that Baxter had not paid Bown for surveying and architectural work carried out on Baxter's stables and residence in Knapping Mount, Harrogate. Baxter counterclaimed for unskilled and improper services on the part of Bown. The case went to arbitration, both were allowed their monetary claims, and Bown had to pay the difference between the sums claimed. [31] [32]

Assistants

One of at least three assistants to Arthur Bown was George R. Bland (b.1866) (fl.1894–1896), who was with the firm between 1885 and 1894. He was later working in partnership as Bland & Bown, with T. Bown, and then H. E. Bown's son Percival Bown. Percival Bown was also articled to Arthur Bown, between 1890 and 1894, and was his assistant until 1897. A third assistant, taken on in 1901, was Walter Clement Barker (1880–1854). [33]

Works: new builds, 1860s – 1881

After H. E. Bown died in 1881, the Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald credited him with the following works (although some may have involved collaboration with his brother): [10]

Dunorlan, the Colonnade at the Spa, Duchy House, the Congregational Schools, most of the houses on the Franklin Estate, of which he was the founder, and many of the handsome residences of Victoria Park; besides which he laid out the estate of the West End Park Co. [10]

West End Park and Victoria Park, Harrogate, 1870

According to the Whitby Gazette's article "Progress of Harrogate" in 1870: [34]

The West End Park, situate opposite the Prince of Wales Hotel, now forms a formidable rival to the Victoria Park. The premium offered by the company, who bought 69 acres here, for the best plan for laying out the estate with sites and first-class villas, was awarded to [John Henry Hirst (1826–1882)], [nb 12] of Bristol, architect. Either a second premium was awarded to Mr H. E. Bown, or an arrangement was come to whereby it was agreed that Mr Hirst should take the premium, and Mr Bown carry out the design. However, Mr Bown appears to have the principal management of the estate. There are above 300 sites, we believe, including a site for a church. Many of the mansions in Victoria Park have also been designed by Mr Hirst and Mr Bown. [34]

Congregational pastor's manse, West End Park, 1870

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The Manse, now Cathcart House, in 2008

This manse in West End Park, adjoining the Leeds Road, was designed by Henry Edwin Bown, at a cost of £1,300 (equivalent to £132,332in 2021). [26] [35] The foundation stone was laid on 17 August 1870 by theological writer Rev. Eustace Conder of East Parade Chapel, Leeds. [35] [36] It was designed with "two large bay windows in front, with drawing room, dining room, library etc., with bedrooms and offices ... the house [stood] in its own grounds, and [commanded] extensive views of the Vale of York". The first pastor of the church to inhabit the manse was to be Rev. F. Fox Thomas. [35]

Former detached villa, Station Parade, Harrogate, 1870s

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Villa on Station Parade by H. E. Bown

This was a Gothic Revival villa on Station Parade, Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, designed for the developer Victoria Park Company, by Henry Edwin Bown. The crosses on the gable suggest that it may have been a priest's house for St Robert's Church, Harrogate (built 1873) across the road. It was demolished in the 1980s to make way for a Safeways supermarket. A Waitrose supermarket occupies the site, as of 2022.

Queen's Park Lodge and fountain, Heywood, Greater Manchester, 1878–1879

Queen's Park Lodge, Heywood, in 2020 Queens Park Lodge, Heywood, geograph-6485392-by-David-Dixon.jpg
Queen's Park Lodge, Heywood, in 2020
Fountain at Queen's Park, Heywood, in 2007 Queens Park fountain - geograph.org.uk - 303012.jpg
Fountain at Queen's Park, Heywood, in 2007

This lodge, designed by H. E. and A. Bown in 1878, [4] and opened on 9 August 1879, [37] is a listed building. [38] Queen Victoria donated the money for Queen's Park and its buildings for the benefit of the inhabitants of Heywood, [39] hence the lodge is sometimes described as having been built for the Queen. [4] It was originally designed as the main entrance lodge for Queen's Park, Heywood, Greater Manchester. It is described by Historic England as follows: [38]

A second entrance lying to the north of the main entrance [of Queen's Park] gives access to a timber-framed and tile-hung lodge (c.1879) designed by Messrs Bown, [nb 13] architects, of Harrogate ... This was intended to be the main entrance but the main access was changed as part of the redesign of the park in the 1930s. [38]

British Architect described the building in 1879 thus: [39] [40]

The walls up to the first floor are constructed of pitch faces (sic) delph stones and above that in half-timber and cement. The gables are filled in with tile hanging, and the roof is covered with chocolate-coloured Staffordshire tiles. The interior woodwork and fittings are in pitch pine. [39] [40]

The firm is also credited with the 1878–1879 design of a "grand three-basin ornamental fountain, elaborately decorated with dolphins and swans", [41] at Queen's Park. [29] [42] The fountain is a listed building, included in the same listing as the lodge above, although Historic England has spelled Bown's name incorrectly. [38]

Detached house, Holderness Road, Hull, 1880

This house was designed for Frederick J. Reckitt by H. E. and A. Bown, but since Henry Edwin Bown was ill by this time, the project architect was probably Arthur Bown. [43]

Dunorlan, 2 Park Road, Harrogate, before 1881

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"Dunorlan", 2 Park Road

This large villa was designed by Henry Edwin Bown, possibly in collaboration with his brother Arthur. [10] As of 2022 it had been converted into flats. [44]

Works: new builds, 1882 – 1911

Note: The following works were designed or completed by Arthur Bown, after his brother died in 1881.

Bradford Old Banking Company building, James Street, Harrogate, 1885

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Bradford Old Banking Co., James Street, in 1888

This former building designed by Arthur Bown was a replacement of the bank's previous, less convenient, building on the opposite side of the road. [45] It was built on the former site of Vina Villa, and stood at the junction of James Street and Princes Street, Harrogate. It was demolished in 1938 to make way for a branch of Barclays Bank which still stands as of 2022. [46] : 33, 34  The bank's board chose H. E. and A. Bown ... [45] [47]

... under whose plans one of the most magnificent and imposing buildings in the town has been erected. Both internally and externally the premises have an elaborate appearance. The building is entirely of stone, carved. The fittings are of polished mahogany, every convenience being provided. The strong room of the bank has had special attention paid, being made practically burglar and fire-proof, and is fitted with Chubb's doors the room being about 24 feet square. The buildings are a decided improvement to the town, and have been much admired while in course of erection, special care having been taken in the external carving, &c. [45]

The Harrogate Club house, Harrogate, 1885–1886

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The Harrogate Club, in 2022

This unlisted building was designed by Arthur Bown as a club house for The Harrogate Club in 1885, and completed at 36 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, in 1886. [48] [49] [50] Historian Malcolm Neesam describes it as follows: [51] : 48–50 

[It] stands imperiously ... at 36 Victoria Avenue, its superb frontage seemingly a contradiction of the institution's modern and welcoming character. Outside, an essay in high Victorian exclusiveness, with a raised ground floor reached by a mountain of wide stone steps, and a massive front door flanked by a pair of the finest curved glass windows in Yorkshire ... a noble building ... a landmark in the town ... with its lofty staircase, illuminated by a huge window of beautiful painted glass. [Upstairs, the largest room in the Club] is the great chamber for billiards and snooker, its high glass ceiling carried aloft with wonderful wooden trusses in the Gothic style. [51] : 48–50 

Jubilee Memorial, Harrogate, 1887

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Engraving of the Jubilee Memorial, 1887

This monument consists of a "statue of Queen Victoria below [a] stone canopy" in "Gothic style" in celebration of her Golden Jubilee. It is a listed building, [52] and was designed by Arthur Bown. [4] The marble statue within it was sculpted by W. J. S. Webber. Although H. E. Bown died a few years before the Jubilee Monument was formally opened, the local newspapers credited him along with his brother Arthur for his share in the architectural design, because Arthur Bown continued to use the practice name. [4] [53] When the Mayoress of Harrogate, May Jane Ellis, laid the cornerstone of the memorial, Arthur Bown presented her with an engraved silver trowel, engraved thus: [54] [55]

Presented to the Mayoress of Harrogate (Mrs Ellis) by the architects and contractor, on the occasion of her laying the cornerstone of Her Majesty's Jubilee Memorial, Station Square, Harrogate, April 14th, 1887. [54]

House for Mr M. Stephenson, near Pannal Ash

In November 1889, this Tudor Revival house, designed by Arthur Bown, was in the process of construction for M. Stephenson, in Pannal Ash Road, near Pannal Ash, between Otley and Blythe Nook. It was "placed in the centre of park-like grounds of about ten acres in extent laid out and planted". The house entrance was on the south side, and the building was "designed in the Domestic Tudor or what is sometimes also termed Old English style of architecture". Although the interior was intended to match the period style of the exterior, it was "modified to suit the requirements of the 19th century". Ninety people, including all the site workmen, sat down to a dinner, with toasts and speeches, provided by Stephenson at the Prospect Hotel, Harrogate, to celebrate the work while still in process of completion. Among others, Arthur Bown gave a speech in which he mentioned the good relationship between workers, and architect. [56]

Drill Hall, Harrogate, 1894

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The Drill Hall, in 2012

This drill hall was designed by Arthur Bown at a cost of £2,300 (equivalent to £278,623in 2021) for the use of F Company of the 1st VB West Yorks (PWO) Regiment, which previously had to "drill in the street". [26] The foundation stone was laid on 22 May 1894 at the junction of Strawberry Dale and Franklin Road, [nb 14] by Colonel George Kearsley, [nb 15] commander of the regiment, before a large crowd including military and civic personages, and with some ceremony including a military band. The hall alone measured 91 ft × 48 ft (28 m × 15 m), and the building included an orderly room, an armoury, lavatories, a cellar and band room in the basement, and a gymnasium upstairs. The club rooms above the hall were reached via the tower, and included a reading room, a smoking room and a billiard room. There was also a three-bedroom sergeant's house. [57] The building has the insignia of the West Yorkshire Regiment carved into the top of the gable. [58]

Two shops in James Street, Harrogate, 1896

Arthur Bown designed two shops and made alterations to a property in James Street, Harrogate in 1896. [59]

Factory, offices and stables, Manchester, 1896

In 1996, Arthur Bown was calling for building contractors, to build a factory, offices and stables in Stockport Road, Manchester, for the Chemists′ Aerated Mineral Waters Association Limited. [60]

Salvation Army Barracks, Harrogate, 1897

The eight memorial stones (or foundation stones) for this building were laid on 23 January 1897, on the former site of Volta House and garden, Harrogate. The stones were laid by several local worthies, including the Mayor of Harrogate, Councillor J. H. Wilson, in the presence of a "large attendance" including various significant local personages and Salvation Army officers. All those who laid the stones were presented with a trowel and inscribed mallet by the contractor Rhodes of Shipley, and Arthur Bown who designed the building. The plans included shops, cellars, a large hall to accommodate 500 people and a junior soldiers' room for 100, retiring rooms, officers' rooms, a crush room, and a band room. [61]

7 and 8 Springfield Avenue, Harrogate, 1898

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7 and 8 Springfield Avenue (3rd pair from left)

This pair of semi-detached villas was designed by Arthur Bown, "showing the same strong neo-Tudor influences as their western neighbours" on the same street. [51] : 53 

Six houses and shops, Longsight, Manchester, 1899

E. H. and A. Bown were calling for contractors for this job from 18 March 1899. It involved "the erection and completion of six dwelling-houses and shops" in Longsight, a suburb of Manchester, and the client was Aerated Mineral Waters Association Limited. [30]

Duchy House, Harrogate, before 1902

This Harrogate building was originally a residence for G. R. Cartwright, the Surveyor General to the Duchy of Lancaster. It was designed by Arthur Bown, possibly in collaboration with his brother, and on the Duchy Estate, which is still owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. [4] [62] The above Queen's Park Lodge and its surrounding park was "enclosed, laid out, planted and ornamented under the immediate superintendence of the Surveyor-general of the Duchy [of Lancaster], Mr Cartwright", [37] so it was for that client that the residence was designed by Bown. [nb 16]

This is possibly Duchy House, 59 Duchy Road, Harrogate, which is on the Duchy of Lancaster Estate and is of the style which was being built in Harrogate in 1902. [63]

Works: restorations, additions and extensions

Alterations to Trinity Church, Ripon, 1873

Holy Trinity Church, Ripon, in 2019 Interior of Holy Trinity church, Ripon (geograph 6334162) (edited).jpg
Holy Trinity Church, Ripon, in 2019

This was a seven-month job for Henry Edwin Bown, involving alterations and improvements to Trinity Church, Ripon. The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer said: [64]

The old-fashioned pews have given way to low open seats of pitch pine; the west end gallery has been restored to its original dimensions – it having been removed some years back. The pulpit has been remodelled, and the old reading desk replaced by one of pitch pine, varnished, and a neat brass lectern has been provided. New porches have been added at the two west entrances, and the chancel window has been filled with stained glass. The church has been redecorated, and this and the alterations are from designs furnished by Mr H. E. Bown, architect, Harrogate. [64] [nb 17]

As of 2022 the pews, pulpit, reading desk and lectern were gone, but the east window was still there. In 1873, before the alterations were quite completed, there was an opening service, with a procession of clergy headed by Robert Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. There was an organ voluntary, a service, and a sermon by the bishop, who said that the bill for the works had been £900 (equivalent to £84,840in 2021) and the church still owed £150 (equivalent to £14,140in 2021). "The offertory box realised £19 2s 3d" (equivalent to £1,795.78in 2021). [64] [26]

Restoration of the former St Mary's Church, Harrogate, 1874

St Mary's showing Bown's raised roof, 1890s Old St Mary's Church, Harrogate.jpg
St Mary's showing Bown's raised roof, 1890s

After the designs were agreed and drawn up, this job was completed on site within three months. Henry Edwin Bown made his initial call for builders in February 1874. [65]

On 14 May 1874, this church in Westcliffe Grove, Harrogate (built 1822, demolished after 1903) [66] was reopened on Ascension Day after Bown's restoration, at a cost of £600 (equivalent to £59,263in 2021), [26] [67] mostly raised by subscription. "The old low roof and flat ceiling [had] been removed, and a new high-pitched roof, with open timbers, [had] been erected, and other improvements made". The original flat ceiling had been supported by pillars, but now "the walls above the pillars [had] been raised several feet ... This roof [was] lined with pitch pine and supported by open timbers, all stained and varnished to match the open sittings of the church. The chief timbers of the roof [sprang] from carved stone corbels". [67] [68]

Additions to Skerry Grange farm house and buildings, nr Sicklinghall, 1891

This job involved "additions to tenant's house and farm buildings at Skerry Grange Farm, near Sicklinghall, for R.J. Foster Esq.". [69]

Yorkshire Hospital for Chronic and Incurable Diseases, Harrogate, 1895

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Yorkshire Hospital for Chronic and Incurable Diseases

The Yorkshire Hospital for Chronic and Incurable Diseases, Harrogate, is as of 2022 converted into flats, and has been renamed as Chapman House, Chapman Square. The same building contained a different environment altogether when in 1895, Arthur Bown designed plans for two additional large rooms, holding ten patients each, to separate those suffering from cancer and tuberculosis from the other patients. [70] The cost of this extension was £250 (equivalent to £30,722in 2021). [26] [71]

Institutions

Henry Edwin Bown, and possibly his brother Arthur, served on the Harrogate Improvement Commissioners' Board, alongside other local architectural worthies including Isaac Thomas Shutt. [72] Henry Bown was elected ARIBA in 1868. [8] Arthur Bown was a member of the Leeds Architectural Association, the London Architectural Association, and the Arboricultural Association. [20]

Notes

  1. ↑ GRO: Deaths Mar 1909 Bown Edwin. 86 Knaresbro' 9a 92
  2. ↑ GRO: Deaths Jun 1891 Bown Anne 68 Knaresbro' 9a 105
  3. ↑ GRO: Births Jun 1845 Bown Henry Edwin Halifax XXII 201. Deaths Sep 1881 Bown Henry Edwin 36 Knaresbro' 9a 77.
  4. ↑ GRO: Marriages Dec 1870 Bown Henry Edwin and Husband Sarh Margaret Knaresbro' 9a 189 and 9a 182
  5. ↑ Percy Bown FRIBA was a partner in the Harrogate architectural firm Bland and Bown (dissolved 8 September 1916). He was working at least from 1900 in Harrogate, and extended the Cairn Hotel, Harrogate in 1908.
  6. ↑ GRO: Births Mar 1851 Bown Arthur Knaresboro XXIII 434. Deaths Sep 1916 Bown Arthur 64 Knaresbro 9a 108.
  7. ↑ GRO: Births Dec 1857 Bagshaw Jane Dewsbury 9b 416. Deaths Mar 1917 Bown Jane 59 Knaresbro 9a 155. Marriages Dec 1880 Bagshaw Jane, and Bown Arthur, Dewsbury 9b 985
  8. ↑ This was John Bagshaw of J. Bagshaw & Sons (est.1834), Victoria Foundry, Batley. GRO: Deaths Jun 1897 Bagshaw John 68 Knaresbro' 9a 76.
  9. ↑ GRO: Births Mar 1884 Bown Harold Linley Knaresbro' 9a 106. Deaths Mar 1962 Bown Harold L. 78 Claro 2c 151
  10. ↑ It was customary during the 19th century to complete a full apprenticeship at around 21 years of age.
  11. ↑ The joint partnership would have been instituted when, or after, Arthur was 23 years old, i.e. during or after 1874
  12. ↑ see Harrogate Herald, 12 July 1882, for details of John Henry Hirst
  13. ↑ Historic England has misprinted "Bonn" for "Bown" in its 1001541 listing. There was no architectural practice called "Bonn" in Harrogate at that time.
  14. ↑ The address of the Drill Hall is now Commercial Street, Harrogate
  15. ↑ See File:Memorial to George Kearsley in Ripon Cathedral.jpg
  16. ↑ The identity of the Harrogate residence for G.R. Cartwright, the Surveyor General to the Duchy of Lancaster has not yet been established.
  17. ↑ 19th-century stained glass was very expensive, and a large east window would have cost Trinity Church several thousand pounds in 1873.

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