Architects

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Wheeler & Sproson

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Architectural practice

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15/04/1926

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1954

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Anthony Wheeler established his practice as H Anthony Wheeler in 1952 with an office in Sailor's Walk in Kirkcaldy. In 1954 he took Frank Sproson into partnership and the practice became Wheeler & Sproson. An Edinburgh office was opened in 1964. Donald McInnes was taken into partnership in 1965, Andrew Weir in 1967, Alan Clark and William McLeod in 1975.

The practice won 19 Saltire Awards and Commendations and 12 Civic Trust Awards and Commendations

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

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To	Notes
Sailor\'s Walk/441-7 High Street Kirkcaldy Fife	Business	1952	After 1975
36a Castle Street Edinburgh Scotland	Business	1964
20 Albany Street Edinburgh Scotland	Business	1968		Branch office
118 Hanover Street Edinburgh Scotland	Business	1976		Became HQ in 1982
Osborne House East Fergus Place Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland	Business	1988		Kirkcaldy practice

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position
Richard Mercer Blaikie	400190	1950s	Before 1967	Assistant
(Sir) Harry Anthony Wheeler (or simply Sir Anthony Wheeler)	400442	In year 1954		Partner
Frank Sproson	400443	In year 1954	In year 1982	Partner
Donald McInnes	400445	In year 1964	After 1975	Partner
Andrew Glen Weir	400446	In year 1967	After 1975	Partner
William Hughes McLeod	400448	In year 1975		Partner
Alan James Clark	400447	In year 1975		Partner
A Johnson	401762	Late 1970s		Architect
P J McCormick	401763	Late 1970s	Early 1980s	Architect
Alan J Clark	407752			Assistant

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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
The Bowery housing estate	In year 1954	Leslie	Fife	Scotland
Sailor's Walk	In year 1954	Kirkcaldy	Fife	Scotland	Major repairs
Burntisland redevelopment (including 128 houses)	In year 1954	Burntisland	Fife	Scotland
Somerville Square and Somerville Street Redevelopment	In year 1955	Burntisland	Fife	Scotland
116 houses for Leslie Town Council	After 1955	Leslie	Fife	Scotland
Villa, 34 Southerton Road	In year 1957	Kirkcaldy	Fife	Scotland
Lochgelly Central Area redevelopment (including 308 houses and 2 Laundrettes)	In year 1957	Lochgelly	Fife	Scotland
Priory Acres	In year 1957	St Andrews	Fife	Scotland
Farm Manager's House, Tullis Russell & Co	1957/02/01	Markinch	Fife	Scotland	Builder p252
Dysart redevelopment (including 162 houses)	In year 1958	Dysart	Fife	Scotland
263 houses	1960s	Galashiels	Selkirkshire	Scotland
Married quarters for MPBW	1960s	Rosyth	Fife	Scotland
17th century buildings, Pittenweem	1960s	Pittenweem	Fife	Scotland
H M Detention Centre and Staff housing	1960s	Alloa	Clackmannanshire	Scotland
Research laboratory and offices for Tullis Russell	1960s	Markinch	Fife	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Glendinning, Miles	Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75	1997	Tuckwell Press Ltd		p14 The Bowery, Leslie; Somerville Street, Burntisland; Dysart Housing, Pittenweem Housing; Old Buckhavenp34-5 Cumbernauld Housingp35-6 Stirling Roadp38 Torbain Parish Churchp110-115p156 Dysart Redevelopment
Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters, David Whitham	Docomomo Scotland Leaflet				p228 Image of Forth Road Bridge and Dysart Housing Scheme
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		p381 Gazetteer 2
Bailey, Rebecca M	Scottish architects' papers: a source book	1996	Edinburgh: The Rutland Press		p140
Willis, Peter	New architecture in Scotland	1977			p8 Dysart Redevelopmentp92-5 Ninewells Hospital
Pride, Glen L	The Kingdom of Fife	1999	The Rutland Press	2nd Edition	p46, p55, p61, p82, p135, p146, p157
Municipal Annual	Scottish Municipal Annual	1964		1964-1965

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Notes
Builder	1964/11/20	p1074
Housing Review	1967/8	7/8-1962 p107-10 Dysart Housing Scheme
Architectural Review	1967/4	p277-9 Dysart Housing Scheme
Architects Journal	1962/2/14	p338 Dysart Housing Scheme
Municipal Journal	1953/12/20	p2759, Bowery Development

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