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Ray Moorcroft
Ray L Moorcroft FRIBA was chief architect for British Rail from 1977, and is best known for his work on the passenger hall of Euston railway station. Career Moorcroft started with British Rail as an architect in the London Midland Region, working with William Robert Headley. He succeeded Bernard Kaukas as Chief Architect to British Rail in 1977, when Kaukas was appointed Director of Environment. Works *Esso Petroleum Company, Davies Street, London. 1954 (modernisation) *Manchester Piccadilly railway station 1959-64 *Railway hostel, Tyseley, Birmingham 1962 *Euston railway station passenger hall 1966-68 with William Robert Headley * King's Cross railway station 1963-68 (rebuilding) *Wolverhampton railway station 1964-67 *Northampton railway station 1965-66 (rebuilding) *Rail House, Crewe 1967-68 (with Frederick Francis Charles Curtis) *Birmingham International railway station Birmingham International is a railway station located in Solihull in the West Midlands, to the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolverhampton Station Entrance
Wolverhampton () is a City status in the United Kingdom, city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunians". Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, the city grew initially as a market town specialising in the wool trade. In the Industrial Revolution, it became a major centre for coal mining, steel production, lock making, and the manufacture of cars and motorcycles. The economy of the city is still based on engineering, including a large aerospace industry, as well as the Tertiary sector of the economy, service sector. Toponym The city is named after Wulfrun, who founded the town in 985, from the Old English, Anglo-Saxon ''Wulfrūnehēantūn'' ("Wulfrūn's high or principal enclosure or farm"). Before the Norman Conquest, the area' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
