Lieut-Colonel Herbert Walker FRIBA,

M Inst CE The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, wh ...

, FSI, (1846 - 23 November 1937) was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer based in Nottingham from 1870 to 1923.

Life

He was born in 1846, the son of George Frederick Walker (1800 - 1857) and Eliza Dutton (1807 - 1875). He studied in the office of his brother

Samuel Dutton Walker Samuel Dutton Walker (1833 – 15 June 1885) F.S.A. was an architect based in Nottingham. History He was born in 1833, the son of George Frederick Walker. His brother Herbert Walker also became an architect in Nottingham. On 23 January 1862 h ...

from 1860 - 1866. He was then articled to Borough Engineer

Marriott Ogle Tarbotton Marriott Ogle Tarbotton MICE, FGS, FRMS, was born in Leeds on 6 December 1834 and died in Nottingham on 6 March 1887. He was Borough Engineer for Nottingham from 1859. Career Tarbotton was Borough Engineer at Wakefield from 1855 until he was ap ...

from 1866 - 1870 and was engineer and surveyor to Basford Sanitary Authority. When Basford was merged with Nottingham he started his own practice in Nottingham in 1870. He had offices in Newcastle Chambers on Angel Row until around 1907 when he moved to Albion Chambers in King Street. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1889. He married Annie Sophia Turner, youngest daughter of John Turner of Edwalton, on 25 January 1872 at Holy Rood Church, Edwalton and they had the following children: *Ethel Walker (b. 1873) *Mabel Elizabeth Walker (b. 1878) *Herbert Spencer Walker (1882 - 1906) *Frederick Turner Walker (1883 - 1941) *Marion Walker (b. 1884) *Dorothy Annie Walker (1889 - 1909) *Kathleen Marjorie Walker (b. 1892) *Geoffrey Dutton Walker (became Manchester City Surveyor) Until 1886 he lived in a house called Church Fields, in Bailey Street, Old Basford. He spent about 37 years with the

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which he joined in 1864 as a cadet. He retired with the rank of Lieut-Colonel. During the First World War he undertook recruiting work and was appointed inspector of machinery for the Royal Engineers. For seven years, he was church warden at

Emmanuel Church, Nottingham Emmanuel Church, Nottingham was a Church of England church in Nottingham on Woodborough Road between 1883 and 1972. History The foundation stone was laid on 24 January 1884 by Mrs. Henry Wright of Heath House, London, Heath House, Hampstead, wi ...

. On retiring from business in 1923 he moved to Blackpool. His wife predeceased him by ten years and he died on 23 November 1937.

Works

*Basford Cemetery, chapel and porter’s lodge. 1874 *Board Schools, Mansfield Road, Sherwood 1878 *Entrance Lodge, Basford Workhouse 1880 *Daybrook Brewery 1881 *Villa Residence for James Acton, Goodwood House, Cross Street, Red Hill, Nottingham 1882. Demolished 1965. *House and shop for Reuben Walker, Basford 1882 *Beeston Sewerage Works 1882-1883 *Boulevard Hotel, Radford Boulevard , Nottingham 1883 *Jacoby and Co Lace Factory, Daybrook, Nottingham 1883 - 1884 *Beeston Cemetery and Chapel,

Wollaton Road, Beeston Wollaton Road, Beeston runs north from its junction with High Road, Beeston to Derby Road. History In 1853 a baptist chapel on the road was purchased by the Primitive Methodists and in 1882 they rebuilt the chapel in its current form. The stree ...

1886 *Blidworth Waterworks 1889 *John Robinson Almshouses, Mansfield Road, Sherwood, Nottingham 1889 *Nottingham Castle restoration of kitchen wall 1889-1891 *Waterworks Office, Castle Boulevard, Nottingham 1899-1900 *Burton Joyce Pumping Station, 1899 - 1900 *Primitive Methodist Church, Westgate, Sleaford 1906-1907 (demolished 1964)

References

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