Electric Palace cinema, Harwich - geograph

Harold Ridley Hooper (1886,

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– 1953) was an

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based in

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. He was elected

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in 1910, having been articled to

John Shewell Corder John Shewell Corder (1856 Westoe, South Tyneside – 19 July 1922 Ipswich) was an English architect, artist and antiquarian. Early life Corder came from a well connected Quaker family with links in East Anglia, North England and Berkshire. He was ...

, and started his own practice in Ipswich in 1912. He was a Colonel in the 4th Battalion of the

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during

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. He was later Deputy

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. His buildings include: * Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich (1911), *

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holiday camp (1936) and other designs for Butlins Ltd. * Belstead House *

Margaret Catchpole Public House The Margaret Catchpole is a pub in Cliff Lane, Ipswich, named after Margaret Catchpole, a servant of Elizabeth and John Cobbold of the Tolly Cobbold brewery. Built in 1936 by the local architect Harold Ridley Hooper for the Cobbold brewery, it i ...

, (1936)

References

* * 1886 births 1953 deaths 20th-century English architects People from Bury St Edmunds Architects from Ipswich British Army personnel of World War I Suffolk Regiment officers Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects {{UK-architect-stub