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Walter Ashley Bartlam

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14/02/1917

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09/06/2012

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Walter Ashley Bartlam was born on 14 February 1917 in Warwickshire. He enrolled in the army at the beginning of the Second World War and went to France with the Military Police as part of the British Expeditionary Force. He transferred to the Royal Engineers where he was sent to a camp at Elgin on an officers' training course prior to obtaining his commission at Aldershot in 1944. He took part in the D-Day invasion and subsequently he was involved in the run-down of POW camps in Europe.

After he was demobbed , he studied for the Diploma in Architecture at Birmingham from 1936. He was elected ARIBA in 1948 and moved to Elgin the following year in the hope of a job with A J Morrison there but this did not materialize and he opened busness on his own account. The practice undertook many house designs in the early days alongside a few commerical buildings. He pioneered open plan office for the HIDB Office in Inverness, gaining three Civic Trust Awards. He counted among his clients the HIDB, the SDA and many councils including Rothes (where he served as burgh architect).

He was elected FRIAS in 1955 and FRIBA on 8 January 1957, his proposers being A Douglas Jones, T M Ashford and Herbert Jackson. Jones in his statement says that Bartlam built a house for himself and converted the present one for house and offices which demonstrate 'very considerable ability'.

From 1964-65 Bartlam served as Vice President of the RIAS, representing the Inverness Chapter. By the mid-1970s he had two partners, James Cameron Manson and A H Campbell. The form was titled W Ashley Bartlam. By the 1970s he had offices in Kingussie, Inverness, Elgin, Nairn and Kirkwall.

He retired in 1982 after completing 3245 jobs over a period of 33 years.

Outwith his profession, Bartlam was a Town Councillor for 6 years, a founding member and Chairman of the Elgin Round Table and a founding member and first President of the Moray Ski Club. He was a keen sailor and had two cruising yachts which he took as far as Norway and the Faroes. His second yacht was a ferro-concrete ketch, the first ever built by Johnes of Buckie. For a period of time he owned a yacht charter company based at Holm in Scapa Flow. He was elected Rear Commodore of the Findhorn Yacht Club in 1965 and in 1967 and 1970 organized the 18 foot National Sailing Chaampionships at Findhorn.

In 1985 there were 5 architects and 5 technicians employed. The practice by that date was called Ashley Bartlam Partnership. Bartlam was a consultant by this time.

After he retired he took up painting sculpture and writing. One of his sculptures is on display at Tankerness Museum. He wrote on a number of local historical and archaeological subjects. Some are lodged at the National Record of the Historic Environment.

Bartlam died on 6 September 2102, survived by his two daughters. His wife had predeceased him in 2010.

Publications:
'Conversion of dwelling house and offices' Ideal Home January 1956
'New dwelling house at Forres Moray' Ideal Home Book of Plans 1956

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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
106 High Street Elgin Morayshire Scotland	Business	1950
South Villa/41 Moss Street Elgin Morayshire Scotland	Business	Before 1955	After 2010
4 Balblair Street Nairn Nairnshire Scotland	Business	1970		Branch office
11 Queensgate Inverness Inverness-shire Scotland	Business	Before 1975	After 1981
57 High Street Kingussie Inverness-shire Scotland	Business	1981		Branch office
11 Broad Street Kirkwall Mainland Orkney Scotland	Business	1981		Branch office

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Ashley Bartlam Partnership	401425	After 1970		Partner

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Position
James Cameron Manson	401426	Before 1970	Assistant
A H Campbell	405389	Mid 1970s	Partner
James Cameron Manson	401426	Mid 1970s	Partner

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Proposer	Proposer Link	Date Proposed	Notes
Aldwyn Douglas Jones	405018	1957/01/08	For Fellowship
Tolson Murray Ashford	405019	1957/01/08	For Fellowship
Herbert Jackson	405020	1957/01/08	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
House for F B Kerr	In year 1950		Morayshire	Scotland
South Villa	c. 1950	Elgin	Morayshire	Scotland	Restoration - latterly used as practice office
House for W L Robson	In year 1952		Morayshire	Scotland
Holy Trinity Episcopal School	In year 1952	Elgin	Morayshire	Scotland	Conversion to hall? New build?
Oykel Hotel	In year 1952			Scotland	New building? Alterations?
House for P Williamson	In year 1952		Morayshire	Scotland
House for H Allen	In year 1952		Morayshire	Scotland
House for A H Forbes	In year 1953		Morayshire	Scotland
Tor-na-Coille Hotel	In year 1953	Banchory	Aberdeenshire/Kincardineshire	Scotland	New cocktail bar added
House for Mrs J N James	In year 1953		Morayshire	Scotland
Shop front for Messrs Jacks	In year 1954	Elgin	Morayshire	Scotland
Logie House	In year 1956	Forres	Morayshire	Scotland	Additions - Apple Room and height of former larder and coal store raised.
Red Lion Hotel	In year 1956	Fochabers	Morayshire	Scotland	Alterations - work not yet begun
Relugas Mansion House	In year 1956		Morayshire	Scotland
House for Mr G B Render	In year 1956		Morayshire	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951	1950	London: Royal Institute of British Architects
RIBA	Directory of Practices 1981	1981
RIBA	RIBA Directory of practices	1975

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIAS Quarterly		2012	12	Winter

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Building Id	Item Name	Notes
RIBA Nomination Papers	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	100005			F no5269 (Combined Box 67)
Records of membership	RIAS, Rutland Square	201006

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