William Bradford (architect)
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William Bradford (1845-1919) was a prolific architect of breweries. Born in 1845 in Devon, son of Robert Bradford 1818-1875 (a builder). Responsible for building or altering 70 breweries his first commission was a small addition to the "Hope Brewery" in East Grinstead (1879). Died at home in Surbiton on 2 February 1919.
He married Hannah Laura Barrat (1848-1893) on 23 April 1872 in St Pancras, London England.
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William Bradford (1845-1919) worked in the brewing industry from the late 1860s and established his architectural practice at 40 King William Street, London EC4, in 1879, moving to Carlton Chambers, 12 Regent Street, London W1, in early 1882. Bradford's works included building or altering over 70 breweries and maltings throughout the country, although the majority were in the south of England. His practice concentrated almost entirely on breweries, maltings and ancillary buildings, notably tower breweries, eventually arriving at a distinctive decorative style, featuring ironwork and a picturesque roof line, that is easily identifiable today. The practice was known as William Bradford & Sons by 1905. The firm continued under his sons, W.Stovin-Bradford and J. W. Bradford, and designed several lavishly ornamented public houses and was last heard of in 1946.{{Citation
| last =Pearson
| first =Lynn
| title = Strategy for the Historic Industrial Environment - The Brewing Industry - A report by the Brewery History Society for English Heritage
| publisher =Brewery History Society
| year = 2010
| page = 7
| url =https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/brewing-industry/bhs-brewing-ind-shier
| access-date = 7 August 2021
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| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210807091202/https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/brewing-industry/bhs-brewing-ind-shier
| archive-date =7 August 2021
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W.Stovin-Bradford presented a paper on the architecture of breweries at the White Horse Hotel, Congreave Street, Birmingham on 21 January 1932. Born in 1877 he died during the war in 1940.{{cite journal
|title=Architecture of Breweries
|journal = Journal of the Institute of Brewing|volume = 38|issue = 2|pages = 190–194|author=W.Stovin-Bradford
|doi=10.1002/j.2050-0416.1932.tb05403.x
|year = 1932}} One of his sons was Frank Stovin-Bradford{{cite web
|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80027061
|title=Stovin-Bradford, Frank oral history
|website=Imperial War Museum
}}
William Bradford was the architect of an unexecuted new brewery which was proposed for a site in Ashbourne Road, Limerick, in 1895 and of another on a site next to the railway station in Dundalk, Co. Louth, for the Great Northern Brewery Co. in 1896.{{cite web
|url=http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/7003/BRADFORD%2C+WILLIAM+%23
|title = Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940
|work= Irish Architectural Archive
}} The brewery in Limerick was abandoned for economic reasons after objections by the local Redemptorists.{{cite web|url=http://limerickcity.ie/media/Media,3949,en.pdf
|title= Old Limerick Journal
|author=John Keane
}} It is unclear if William Bradford was the architect of the Great Northern Brewery in Dundalk which was built in 1896. A contemporary picture of the brewery appears to match the style of other breweries.{{cite web
|url=http://www.gndireland.com/
|title=Great Northern Brewery
}}
Breweries and buildings that he is responsible for are:
- Hope Brewery East Grinsted (1879){{cite web
|url=http://www.eastgrinsteadonline.com/2014/11/04/southdown-east-grinstead-brewery/
|title=The Southdown and East Grinstead Brewery
|work=EastGrinstedOnline
}}
- Salters of Rickmansworth around 1888
: Erection a new 40-quarter plant, as well as enlargement of the existing premises{{cite web
|url=http://breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/119/bh-119-032.html
|title=Brewery History
|author=Martyn Cornell
}}
- The Bottle House for Camden Brewery (1900-1901) Grade II Listed Hawley Crescent Camden London{{cite web
|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101393130-the-elephant-house-including-former-coopers-building-boundary-walls-and-gate-piers-camden-town-with-primrose-hill-ward#.WPCAX1MrJp8
|title=British Listed Buildings
}}
- Prince of Wales Brewery, Nottingham (1891) Grade II Listed Alpine Street, Basford, Nottingham{{cite web
|url=http://www.nottingham21.co.uk/build_prince_of_wales_brewery_1.htm
|title=nottingham buildings
}}
- Swan Brewery, Fulham (1882){{cite web
|url=http://breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/115/bh-115-026.html
|title=Brewery History
|work=Alfred Barnard
|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Swan_Brewery
|title=Brewery Drawings
|work=The Engineer
}}
- Shipstones Star Brewery, New Basford 1901 Shipstones Brewery
- Castle Brewery, Newark 1889-90 Grade II Listed Albert Street, Newark{{cite web
|url=http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/brewing/brewingstructural.htm
|title=Nottinghamshire Heritage
|author=Dr Denise Amos
}}
- Mansfield Brewery 1907 Demolished 2008
- Cheltenham Brewery 1898
: Tower still remains. Henrietta Street, Cheltenham{{cite web
|url=http://englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/cheltenham-gloucestershire.html
|title=English Buildings|author=Philip Wilkinson
|website=englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk
|date=2009-12-12}}
- Hook Norton Brewery 1899
: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire{{cite web
|url=http://englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/hook-norton-brewery-oxfordshire.html
|title=English Buildings
|author=Philip Wilkinson
|work=englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk
|date=2007-07-12
}}
- Wells Brewery, Watford 1902{{cite web
|url=http://north-watford-history.org.uk/pages/businesses/wells-brewery.html
|title=North Watford History Group
|access-date=14 April 2017
|archive-date=4 March 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082327/http://north-watford-history.org.uk/pages/businesses/wells-brewery.html
|url-status=dead
}}
- The Unicorn Brewery Ipswich{{cite web
|url=http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/unicorn.html|title=The Unicorn
}}
- Tolly Cobbold Brewery Ipswich (1896) Grade II listed
- Albion Brewery
: Only Grade II listed brewery engineers house stands 27a Mile End Rd, London{{cite web
|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1320008
|title=albion brewery
|work=Historic England
|url=http://panoramaeast.org.uk/panorama/north/560
|title=Mile end road
}}
- Harveys Bridge Wharf Brewery 1882 Lewes Harveys Brewery{{cite web
|url=http://www.harveys.org.uk/the-brewery/about-us
|title=History
|work=harveys.org.uk}}
- Courage Alton Brewery Hampshire{{cite web
|url=http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw023433
|title=courage brewery alton|work=britainfromabove
}}
- Lamb Brewery Chiswick (1901){{cite web
|url=http://www.doricdesign.com/Chiswickhistory/ch2013/pages/040-business.html
|title=lamb brewery
|work=Gillian Clegg
|access-date=14 April 2017
|archive-date=15 April 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415163426/http://www.doricdesign.com/Chiswickhistory/ch2013/pages/040-business.html
|url-status=dead
}}
- Hanson Brewery 1890 Hanson's Brewery was completed, adjacent to the Hardy's site, with a 6-storey brewery tower as its centrepiece.{{cite web
|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101392976-the-maltings-of-former-hardy-and-hanson-brewery-kimberley#.WPB50lMrJp8
|title=The Maltings of Former Hardy and Hanson Brewery
|work=British Listed Buildings
}}
|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1546401&sort=4&search=all&criteria=trent&rational=q&recordsperpage=10&p=54&move=n&nor=817&recfc=0
|title=MCMULLENS BREWERY|work=Historic England
|last1 =Pearson
|first1 =Lynn
|last2 = Anderson
|first2 = Ray
|title = Gazetteer of operating pre-1940 breweries in Englandt - The Brewing Industry - A report by the Brewery History Society for English Heritage
|publisher =Brewery History Society
|year = 2010
|page = 9
|url =https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries/
|access-date = 1 September 2021
|url-status =live
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20191215212629/https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries/
|archive-date =15 December 2019
}}
- George Ware Brewery Frant (1893){{cite web
|url=http://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/border-country.html
|title = George Ware Brewery|work=Paul Bailey
|date = 2015-07-05}}
- Offilers Brewery Derby (1884){{cite web
|url=https://google.co.uk/books/edition/Derby_Through_Time/aSNVBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=star+tea+co+william+bradford+george+offiler&pg=PT130&printsec=frontcover
|title = Derby Through Time|work=Maxwell Craven
|date = 2014-11-15}}
- Camerons Brewery Lion Brewery, Hartlepool addition of a new maltings in 1883{{Citation
|last1 =Pearson
|first1 =Lynn
|last2 = Anderson
|first2 = Ray
|title = Gazetteer of operating pre-1940 breweries in Englandt - The Brewing Industry - A report by the Brewery History Society for English Heritage
|publisher =Brewery History Society
|year = 2010
|page = 4
|url =https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries/
|access-date = 1 September 2021
|url-status =live
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20191215212629/https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries/
|archive-date =15 December 2019
}}
- Teignworthy Brewery Ltd, The Maltings{{Citation
|last1 =Pearson
|first1 =Lynn
|last2 = Anderson
|first2 = Ray
|title = Gazetteer of operating pre-1940 breweries in Englandt - The Brewing Industry - A report by the Brewery History Society for English Heritage
|publisher =Brewery History Society
|year = 2010
|page = 30
|url =https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries/
|access-date = 1 September 2021
|url-status =live
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20191215212629/https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries/
|archive-date =15 December 2019
}}
- Tucker's Maltings, Newton Abbot, Devon (1900){{cite web
|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/germination-floor-at-tuckers-maltings-newton-abbot-tucker14
|title=Germination floor at Tucker's Maltings
}}
- McArthur's Warehouse maltings, Gasferry Road, Bristol (1897){{cite web
|url=https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/brewing-industry/bhs-brewing-ind-shier.pdf/|title=The Brewing Industry|work=Lynn Pearson
}}
- H Luker 25-quarter Brewery, Southend (1891){{cite web
|url=http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/111/bh-111-015.html
|title=Brewery Heritage of Essex
}}
- Hartleys Brewery, West Cowick 1892 (Brewers Journal 1892){{cite web
|url=http://www.cowick-history.co.uk/public-houses-and-brewers.html
|title=Cowick History
}}
- Wooldridge & Co Tottenham Brewery (1892){{cite web
|url=http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wooldridge_%26_Co._Ltd
|title=Wooldridge&Co
}}
- Magee Marshall & Co Brewery, Bolton 1893 (Brewers Journal)
- Canon Brewery Clerkenwell 1894{{cite web
|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol46/pp221-241
|title=British History Online
}}
- Millwall Working Mens Club (1900){{cite web
|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp412-418
|title=British History
}}
- Royal Brewery Brentford 1899 Alteration and additions (BJ 1899 p215){{cite web
|url=http://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/publications/the-journal/brentford-chiswick-local-history-journal-14-2005/the-royal-brewery-brentford/
|title=Royal Brewery
|work=Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society
}}
- Phipps Bridge Street Brewery, Northampton. extension 1905{{cite web
|url=http://phipps-nbc.co.uk/6.html
|title=Bridge Street Brewery
|url=http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/brewing/brewingstructural.htm
|title=The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway > Themes > Brewing > Structural
|work=nottsheritagegateway.org.uk
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/07/closing-breweries-glancey
|title=Jonathan Glancey on the decline of the British brewery
|author=Jonathan Glancey
|newspaper=the Guardian
|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101392976-the-maltings-of-former-hardy-and-hanson-brewery-kimberley#.WPB50lMrJp8
|title=The Maltings of Former Hardy and Hanson Brewery
|work=British Listed Buildings
}}
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