Albert Nelson Bromley

Boots the Chemist, High Street/Pelham Street, Nottingham 1903-04

Nottingham Joint Stock Bank, Long Eaton, Derbyshire 1891

Fruit Store, 37-41 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham 1900

Boots the Chemist, St Peter's Street, Derby 1912

Albert Nelson Bromley (15 July 1850 - 16 August 1934) was a Scottish architect based in Nottingham.

History

He was born in Stafford on 15 July 1850, the son of Charles Nelson Bromley (1817-1853) and Emma Bakewell (1819-1907). He studied in the practice of his uncle, Frederick Bakewell, and in 1874 was promoted to partner.

Within two years Bakewell went into retirement and Bromley set up his own practice. He became principal architect to the Nottingham School Board and undertook several projects for the Nottingham and District Tramways Company. He was also architect to the National Telephone Company.^[1]

In 1897 he was in partnership with Thomas Herbert Waumsley, and later also Harry Garnham Watkins. In 1904 Thomas Cecil Howitt, the future architect of the Council House and Council housing, joined Bromley’s office as an apprentice,^[2] and from 1907 was his assistant. In 1928 Harry Garnham Watkins left the partnership^[3] and Thomas Nelson Cartwight joined, and Bromley, Cartwright & Waumsley were architects to Boots the Chemist.

He married Elizabeth Skepper Brogden (1853-1940) on 11 April 1878 in St Swithin's Church, Lincoln^[4] and they had one daughter, Kathleen Christiana Bromley (1879-1967).

He died on 16 August 1934 at 15 Newcastle Drive, Nottingham and left an estate of £63,359 14s. 2d.^[5] (equivalent to £4,056,600 in 2015).^[6]

Works

• 15-17 Newcastle Drive, The Park Estate, Nottingham 1878
• Board School, Queen’s Walk, Nottingham 1878-79^[1]
• Tram station, Basford for the Nottingham and District Tramways Company 1881
• Nottingham Board Boys’ School, Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham 1887^[1]
• Royal Midland Institute for the Blind, Chaucer Steet, Nottingham 1888
• Clarendon Street Board School 1889^[1]
• Midland Bank, Market Place, Heanor, Derbyshire ca. 1890^[7]
• Nottingham Joint Stock Bank (later Midland Bank), Market Place, Long Eaton 1891^[8]
• Boots the Chemist, 11-13 London Road, Liverpool 1896
• Boots the Chemist, Harpur Street and Silver Street, Bedford, 1898
• Boots the Chemist, Grantham, 1899
• Solicitor’s Office, Bottle Lane, Nottingham 1898-99^[1]
• Telephone Exchange, George Street, Nottingham 1898-99^[1]
• Fruit store, 37-41 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham 1900^[1] (Argos in 2016)
• Boots the Chemist store, Pelham Street/High Street, Nottingham 1903-04^[1]
• Boots the Chemist shop and tea rooms, Turney Street, Nottingham 1905^[1]
• Boots Store No 2 1905-07^[9]
• Queen’s Hotel, Arkwright Street, Nottingham 1905 (ground floor bays)
• Boots the Chemist store, Buxton, 1906
• Boots the Chemist store, Lytham St Anne’s, 1906
• Boots the Chemist store, 252-254 West Street, Sheffield 1906
• Telephone Exchange, George Street, Nottingham 1907^[1] (additional two bays)
• Boots the Chemist store, 45 St Peter’s Street, Derby 1912
• Boots the Chemist, Northgate, Gloucester 1914^[10]
• Boots the Chemist store, Southend, 1915
• Boots the Chemist finishing rooms, Queen’s Road, Nottingham 1915-16^[1]
• 1-3 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham 1927 (south bay)
• Boots the Chemist store, Leicester
• National Provincial Bank, Smithy Row, Nottingham 1927-28^[1]
• Boots the Chemist store, Brighton, 1927-28
• Boots the Chemist, Argyle Street and Union Street, Glasgow 1928.^[11]
• Boots the Chemist store, Cheltenham
• Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital 1928-29^[12]
• Women’s Hospital, Peel Street, Nottingham 1928-29^[13]

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