Architects

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Ronald Bradbury

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01/05/1908

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13/11/1971

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Ronald Bradbury was born in Reading and educated at the University of Liverpool (graduating MA(Arch)) and the University of Manchester (graduating BA (Arch)). He was elected ARIBA in 1930 and FRIBA in 1943. He also studied at Columbia, New York and was awarded the degrees of MSc and Phd.

He was Director of Housing in Glasgow from 1943 to 1948 following which he became City Architect for Liverpool. His new appointment was recorded in the Builder:

'Dr Ronald Bradbury BA(Arch) Manc. MSc PhD FRIBA AMTPI Director of Housing, Glasgow, has been appointed City Architect and Director of Housing, Liverpool in succession to Sir Lancelot Keay KBE. Mr Bradbury takes up the appointment on September 6 next. He is 40'. [Builder 9 July 1948 p33]. In 1953 he won a prestigious medal and diploma for the first phase of a new housing estate in Southdene, Kirby.

He was still in this post in 1970.

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
Blackburn Chambers Dale Street Liverpool England	Business	1970
Glasgow Scotland	Business

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This person proposed the following individuals for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Person	Date Proposed	Notes
Thomas Davison Hall	1946/02/12	For Associateship
Derreck Roy Wyler	1946/12/10	For Associateship
Thomas Loudon Fleming	1947/02/11	For Associateship
James Victor Trousdell Scott	1958/05/06	for Fellowship
Thomas Barclay	Early 1959s	for Fellowship
William Knight	1963/06/26	For Fellowship

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	City or County	Country	Notes
Hostel for single women, Warriston Street	In year 1944	Cartyne	Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing
200 houses around Lamont Road, Balornock Housing Scheme	In year 1945	Balornock	Glasgow	Scotland	Bradbury as Director of Housing in Glasgow Corporation Housing Department
Experimental houses, faced with stone	In year 1945	Pollok	Glasgow	Scotland
Balornock Housing Scheme	In year 1945	Balornock	Glasgow	Scotland	Bradbury as Director of Housing in Glasgow Corporation Housing Department
Factory	In year 1945		Glasgow	Scotland
57 Houses, Kingswood Estate	In year 1945	Kingswood	Glasgow	Scotland
216 cottages and flats, Robroyston Housing Scheme	In year 1946	Robroyston	Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing, Glasgow. Bradbury and staff responsible for design.
Sannox Gardens Housing and Princess Court Hostel	In year 1946		Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing for this period.
Moss Heights Housing	In year 1946		Glasgow	Scotland	Conceived by Bradbury and executed later?
Crathie Court Housing	In year 1946		Glasgow	Scotland	Letters suggest Bradbury had prepared drawings for Crathie Drive, for approval of the Sub-Committee on Sites & Buildings at their meeting of 17 May 1946
260 Atholl Steel Houses, Robroyston Housing Scheme	c. 1946	Robroyston	Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing
Robroyston Housing Scheme	c. 1946	Robroyston	Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing
294 Orlit Flats and Cottages, Robroyston Housing Scheme	c. 1946	Robroyston	Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing
240 Atholl Steel Houses, Robroyston Housing Scheme	c. 1946	Robroyston	Glasgow	Scotland	As Director of Housing
Barmulloch Housing Scheme	In year 1948	Barmulloch	Glasgow	Scotland	Director of Housing. Responsible for original proposals prior to his departure to Liverpool

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
www.thefreelibrary.com	www.thefreelibrary.com
Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan	Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland	1994	Yale University Press: New Haven and London	p228 Moss Heightsp381, Gazetteer 2
Glendinning, Miles	Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75	1997	Tuckwell Press Ltd	p174 Crathie Court Housing
Williamson, Riches, Higgs	Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland)	1990		p657
RIBA	RIBA Directory 1970	1970

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
Builder	1948/07/09		p33 with photograph. Appointment as Liverpool City Architect.
British Housing and Planning Review	1951/8		8/9/1951 Sannox Gardens p152
Scottish Georgian Society Bulletin	1982		'Crathie Court and Moss Heights'
Municipal Journal	1950/9/22		p2281 Moss Heights
Builder	1953/6/12		p910-11 Moss Heights
Architectural Review	1954/5		p342 Moss Heights
Concrete Quarterly	1953/9/7	19	p16-19 Moss Heights
Architects Journal	1954/2/25		p250

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