William Vallance Betts
Illustration — Former Co-operative Society Stores, Queen's Road, Beeston 1907 (now a furniture shop) • Illustration — Nottingham Co-operative Society, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham. 1914–16 and 1925-26 • Illustration — Shops at 40-48 High Road, Beeston, 1927 William Vallance Betts LRIBA (1862 – 10 July 1933) was an English architect based in Nottingham.
William Vallance Betts
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- 1862
- Died
- 1933
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · United Kingdom
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- architect
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Illustration — Former Co-operative Society Stores, Queen's Road, Beeston 1907 (now a furniture shop) • Illustration — Nottingham Co-operative Society, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham. 1914–16 and 1925-26 • Illustration — Shops at 40-48 High Road, Beeston, 1927 William Vallance Betts LRIBA (1862 – 10 July 1933) was an English architect based in Nottingham.
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section Born in 1862, the son of William Betts (1835–1909) and Mary Vallance (b. 1829), William V. Betts was articled to Herbert Walker in Nottingham and later became his assistant. From 1887 to 1888, he was assistant to George Haslam in Ilkeston. Betts commenced independent practice in Nottingham in 1888 and later went into partnership with his son, Albert William Betts. He married Hannah Hoole (1866–1931) in 1888 in Basford, and they had the following children: • Annie Vallance Betts (1890–1981) • Albert William Betts (1892–1963) • Frank Cecil Betts (1895–1963) • Ernest Pollard Betts (1896–1972) • Jennie Betts (b. 1900) • Herbert Betts (1903–1989) Betts died on 10 July 1933, aged 70 or 71, and was buried at Basford Cemetery. He left an estate valued at £11,264.
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- 1.Brodie, Antonia. Directory of British Architects 1834–1914: Vol 1 (A–K). Royal Institute of British Architects. 173. 20 December 2001. 0826455131.
- 2.Death of Mr. W.V. Betts. Nottingham Evening Post. 11 July 1933.
- 3.New Sunday School at Old Basford. Nottingham Journal. 3 July 1899.
- 4.Harwood, Elain. Pevsner Architectural Guides, Nottinghamshire. Yale University Press. 87. 1979. 0140710027.
- 5.What Princess will see at Meadow Lane. Nottingham Journal. 30 April 1927.
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