Bradshaw Gass & Hope

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Bradshaw Gass & Hope is an English firm of architects founded in 1862 by Jonas James Bradshaw (1837-1912). The style "Bradshaw Gass & Hope" was adopted after J. J. Bradshaw’s death and refers to the remaining partners John Bradshaw Gass and Arthur John Hope.

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[edit] History

The firm’s principal office has always been in Bolton, but branch offices were set up in Edinburgh and London when major projects were undertaken there.

Although Bradshaw was capable of designing fine Gothic Revival houses, like Watermillock (1880-86) near Bolton, he mainly produced industrial buildings. The technical challenges of early iron and concrete framed factories led Bradshaw to employ his own engineers and quantity surveyors and thus found one of the first multidisciplinary practices. The emphasis on engineering in the practice seems to have benefited John Parkinson (1861-1935), Bradshaw’s apprentice from 1877 to 1882, who immigrated to America where he designed a number of high-rise buildings including Los Angeles City Hall (1928).

In the early twentieth century, Bradshaw Gass & Hope gained national prominence after winning a number of architectural competitions; the firm built seven town halls between 1928 and 1939 and extended Bolton Town Hall. During this period, Bradshaw Gass & Hope attracted many architecture students; half a dozen of these students would later head council architects departments across the country.[1]

Until the 1960s most of the firms work was in the Classical idiom.

Sir George Grenfell-Baines, the founder of Building Design Partnership, worked in the Bolton office from 1930 to 1934; he was impressed by the firm’s multidisciplinary nature but dismayed by its strict hierarchical structure (at that time).[2]

Bradshaw Gass & Hope still operates from its Bolton office. In 2007 they were the subject of a monograph and their archive drawings were exhibited in London and Manchester.[3]

[edit] Selected buildings by Bradshaw Gass & Hope

Listed by date under practice title at the time:[4][5][6]

[edit] Jonas James Bradshaw with Leigh Hall

  • Eaves Lane Workhouse (now Hospital), Chorley (1869-72)

[edit] J. J. Bradshaw

  • Clitheroe Workhouse (now Hospital) (1870)
  • Greenthorne, Edgworth, private residence (enlarged 1880)
  • The Spinners’ Hall, Bolton (1880 and later enlargements)
  • Watermillock, Bolton (1880-86)

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  • Rutland Mills, Adelaide Street, Bolton (1883-1920)
  • Lincoln Mill, Washington Street, Bolton (1883-1920)
  • Bolton Evening News offices (1890-1907)
  • The Victoria Hall, Bolton (1898-1900)
  • College of Art, Hilden Street, Bolton (1901-3)

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[edit] Image gallery of Buildings by Bradshaw Gass & Hope

Victoria Hall, Bolton (1898-1900)

Stockport Central Library (1912-13)

Manchester Royal Exchange (1914-21)

UMIST (1927-57)

Bolton Civic Centre (1930-39) with Town Hall Extension (1937) to the right.

Lewisham town Hall now Broadway Theatre (1928-32)

Trafford Town Hall (1932-33)

Luton Town Hall (1934-38)

Padiham Town Hall (1938)

Burnley Police Station and Magistrates Court (1951-55)

Reebok Stadium (1997)

[edit] Some notable people who worked for Bradshaw Gass & Hope

[edit] Partners

[edit] Former pupils and technical staff

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Austen Redman (2007), Bolton Civic Centre and the Classical Revival Style of Bradshaw Gass & Hope. in Clare Hartwell & Terry Wyke(editors), Making Manchester, Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, ISBN 978-0-900942-01-3
  2. ^ George Grenfell-Baines (2000), interviewed by Louise Brodie at Preston, (January 5 - 11) Architects’ Lives, London: National Biographical Archive, C467/46/F7839.
  3. ^ Jane & Timothy Lingard (2007) Bradshaw Gass & Hope - The Story of an Architectural Practice, ISBN 978-0-9556035-01
  4. ^ A. Stuart Gray (1985) Edwardian Architecture: a Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0 7156 2141 6.
  5. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner (1969), Lancashire 1: the Industrial and Commercial South, The Buildings of England, ISBN 0-14-071036-1.
  6. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner (1969), Lancashire 2: The Rural North, The Buildings of England, ISBN 0-300-09617-8.

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