Alfred W. Blomfield
Illustration — The French House, Soho • Illustration — Dagenham Roundhouse • Illustration — 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.
Alfred W. Blomfield
Ewan Munro from London, UK · French House, Soho, W1 · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- 1879
- Died
- 1949
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Illustration — The French House, Soho • Illustration — Dagenham Roundhouse • Illustration — 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.
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Alfred W. Blomfield was born in 1879.
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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". Blomfield was the architect of The French House, a pub at 49 Dean Street, Soho, London, built in 1937. Blomfield was the architect of the Dagenham Roundhouse, built in 1936. Nikolaus Pevsner calls it a "highly unusual design". 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).
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Blomfield died in 1949.
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1879
Alfred W. Blomfield was born on 1 January 1879.
1949
Alfred W. Blomfield died on 1 January 1949.
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- 1.Lynn Pearson. Strategy for the Historic Industrial Environment The Brewing Industry. A report by the Brewery History Society for English Heritage. english-heritage.org.uk. February 2010.
- 2.The Bedford Hotel. 1427422.
- 3.Soho: A Pub Crawl. Lookingatbuildings.org.
- 4.Yale University Press. London: East. 140. 2005. 978-0-300-10701-2.
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Blomfield is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Blomfield is recorded with the occupation architect. The identifiers under which Alfred W. Blomfield may be traced in institutional catalogues.
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