Group    From 1832  To 1943

HM Office of Works

Categories: Architecture, Property

Summarising Wikipedia: The Office of Works (the King's Works) was responsible only for royal properties (1378–1832). This became the Office of Woods, Forest, Land Revenues and Works (1832–1852). The Office of Works was founded in 1851 and became the Ministry of Works in 1940. This became the Ministry of Works & Planning (1942–43); the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHLG) 1951–62; the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (1962–70) before being subsumed in the Department of the Environment in 1970 and English Heritage in 1984.

Architects of Greater Manchester has an entry for this organisation specifying that the architects department was formed in 1832 and dissolved in 1940.

Scottish Architects describes it as an Architectural practice, later known as Ministry of Works (from 1943), Ministry of Public Building and Works (from1962), absorbed into the Department of the Environment in 1970, although most Works functions were transferred to the Property Services Agency (PSA), which was created as an autonomous agency in 1972.

Offices in Edinburgh, London, Bristol and Manchester.

There is an associated WW1 war memorial in the Parkside entrance of HM Treasury building, Parliament Street.

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HM Office of Works

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Swinburne House

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John Romer

John Romer

Architect and structural engineer. John Henry Romer was born on 13 March 1947 in Kingston-upon-Thames the eldest of the three children of Sydney Gurney Romer (1903-2005) and Dorothy Joan Agnes Rom...

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1 memorial
R. Day

R. Day

Mason-sculptor of Camberwell. Active in 1825.

Person, Architecture, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Guy Nicholls

Guy Nicholls

Architect active in 1950. Possibly the borough surveyor for St Marylebone but we cannot confirm that.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Frederick Atkinson Powell

Frederick Atkinson Powell

Architect. Mayor of Lambeth 1905-6 and 1906-7. Died at home at 344 Kennington Road.

Person, Architecture, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Roz Flint

Roz Flint

Architect/designer/landscape designer.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial