Leslie Gooday

Gooday was born in the former Croydon registration district of Surrey on 14 June 1921.{{cite web | url=http://www.tobywalker.co.uk/Leslie%20Gooday%20About.html | title=About Leslie Gooday | publisher=Toby Walker | access-date=1 April 2021}}

Elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951, he assisted Hugh Casson in designing the boating-pool and leisure area at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.{{cite web | url=http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo2OiJnb29kYXkiOw==&pg=4 | title=Shot Tower, boating-pool and riverside pavilions, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London | publisher=RIBA | work=Gallery | accessdate=28 January 2014}}

He designed, in 1961,Cherry and Pevsner, p.93 the Grade II listed{{National Heritage List for England |num=1246189 |desc=Richmond Baths, Old Deer Park|date = 16 January 1996|access-date=1 April 2021}} Richmond Baths, now known as Pools on the Park, a swimming pool and leisure facility in Old Deer Park in Richmond, London. Completed in 1966,Cherry and Pevsner, p.520{{cite web |url=http://www.forg.org.uk/publications/The%20Old%20Deer%20Park,%20June,%202012_opt.pdf |title=The Old Deer Park, Richmond – A Framework for Conservation and Development |publisher=Friends of Richmond Green and others |date=June 2012 |accessdate=18 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019150749/http://www.forg.org.uk/publications/The%20Old%20Deer%20Park,%20June,%202012_opt.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2013 |url-status=dead }} it received a Civic Trust award in 1967{{cite web | url=http://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/played-in-london-directory-sporting-assets-london/DirectoryofHistoricSportingAssetsinLondon.pdf/ | title=28.14 Pools on the Park | publisher=English Heritage, now Historic England | work=Played in London: a directory of historic sporting assets in London | date=2015 | accessdate=11 August 2015 | author=Played in Britain | pages=139 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305022904/http://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/played-in-london-directory-sporting-assets-london/DirectoryofHistoricSportingAssetsinLondon.pdf/ | archive-date=5 March 2016 | url-status=dead }} and is recognised by Historic England as illustrating "the more ambitious use of glazed curtain walling and the post-Wolfenden ReportThe Wolfenden Report referred to in this instance is that of the Committee on Sport & the Community, chaired by John Wolfenden, whose report, commissioned by the Central Council of Physical Recreation, reported in 1960. {{cite web | url=http://www.sportdevelopment.info/index.php/subjects/60-ccpr-a-national-governing-bodies/251-sport-a-the-community-the-report-of-the-wolfenden-committee-on-sport-1960 | title=Sport & the Community: the report of the Wolfenden committee on Sport 1960 | publisher=Sports Development | date=2 September 2012 | accessdate=17 October 2013 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019051818/http://www.sportdevelopment.info/index.php/subjects/60-ccpr-a-national-governing-bodies/251-sport-a-the-community-the-report-of-the-wolfenden-committee-on-sport-1960 | archivedate=19 October 2013 | df=dmy-all }} emphasis on providing large banks of spectator seating".{{cite web | url=https://www.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications | title=Sports and Recreation Buildings | publisher=Historic England | work=Designating Heritage Assets | date=December 2012 | accessdate=11 May 2015 | pages=7}}

His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey,{{cite journal | url=http://www.ribaj.com/culture/obituary-rick-richard-martin-mather-1937-2013 | title=In Memoriam | journal=RIBA Journal |date=1 June 2013|access-date= 1 April 2021}} Gooday's death is listed at the end of the article.{{cite web | url=http://www.find-kingston.co.uk/company/Leslie+Gooday+%26+Associates/4906 | title=Leslie Gooday & Associates | publisher=Find Kingston | accessdate=28 January 2014}} Surrey, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970.{{cite journal | url=http://www.vads.ac.uk/diad/article.php?year=1967&title=1&article=d.231.24 | title=Designers for the Japan world fair|journal=Design Journal | year=1967 | issue=231 | pages=23}}

In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road,{{cite web | url=http://www.cambridge2000.com/modern/html/building/8692.html | title=Building 8692 | publisher=Cambridge 2000 | work=UK House Database | accessdate=28 January 2014 |author1=Martin, Hugh |author2=Anderson, Dave}} Ham, LondonCherry and Pevsner, p.476 which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties".Cherry and Pevsner, p.92 He also designed houses in other parts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and East Sussex.{{cite web | url=http://www.cambridge2000.com/modern/html/architect/Leslie_Gooday_Associates.html | title=Leslie Gooday & Associates | publisher=Cambridge 2000 | work=UK House Database | accessdate=28 January 2014 |author1=Martin, Hugh |author2=Anderson, Dave}} The Bosphorus House in Kippington Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, that he designed in the 1960s, was described in the local volume of The Buildings of England in 1983 as "ingenious".{{cite web | url= http://www.cambridge2000.com/modern/html/building/581.html|title= Building 581|publisher=Cambridge 2000 | work=UK House Database | accessdate=28 January 2014 |author1=Martin, Hugh |author2=Anderson, Dave}}{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – North East and East Kent | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4V0osYKTJYC&q=leslie+gooday+architect&pg=PA121 |publisher=Penguin Books | author=Newman, John | year=1983|edition=Third | pages=121 | isbn=0-14-071039-6}} He made alterations to the Latter-day Saint church building in Balham, London, in 1979–80.Cherry and Pevsner, p.664

He died on 16 March 2013.{{cite news | url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/161826/leslie-gooday-o.b.e | title=Leslie Gooday O.B.E. | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=March 2013 | accessdate=28 January 2014 | author=Gooday, Max}}

Gooday designed the two homes in which he lived successively with his wife Rosemary and children:{{cite book | url=http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo2OiJnb29kYXkiOw==&pg=23 | title=Architect's house, 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London: the entrance patio | access-date = 21 January 2021|publisher=RIBA}}

• 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London
• Longwall (built 1964–66) St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey – described in its statutory listing in the initial (Grade II) category as "perhaps his most successful work".{{National Heritage List for England |num=1375675 |desc=Long Wall, and Retaining Walls|date = 15 July 1998|accessdate=18 December 2020}}{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – Surrey | publisher=Penguin Books |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5b6dCBlfCLUC&q=Long+Wall%2C+Golf+Club+Road+in+Weybridge+gooday&pg=PA520|author=Nairn, Ian and Pevsner, Nikolaus | year=1971|edition=Second | location=London | page=520 | isbn=0-300-096-75-5}}

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• {{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – London 2: South | publisher=Penguin Books | author=Cherry, Bridget and Pevsner, Nikolaus | year=1983 | location=London | page=93 | isbn=0-14-0710-47-7}}

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