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[[File:Ethelburt.jpg|thumb|200px|Herbert Collins houses in Ethelburt Avenue, [[Swaythling]]]] |
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⚫ | '''Herbert Collins''' (1885–1975) was a British architect, born in [[Edmonton, London]].<ref>{{cite web|title=SeaCity Museum|url=https://www.facebook.com/SeaCityMuseum/timeline?filter=1|via=Facebook|accessdate=24 November 2012|date=19 October 2012}}</ref> He designed many of the suburban developments in the city of [[Southampton]] in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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⚫ | '''Herbert Collins''' (1885–1975) was a British architect, born in [[Edmonton, London]].<ref>{{cite web|title=SeaCity Museum|url=https://www.facebook.com/SeaCityMuseum/timeline?filter=1| |
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==Life== |
==Life== |
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Collins designed houses in Southampton from 1922,<ref name="echo heritage">{{cite news|title=Herbert Collins|url=http://www. |
Collins designed houses in Southampton from 1922,<ref name="echo heritage">{{cite news|title=Herbert Collins |url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/heritage/hampshire100/100historical/1488612.Herbert_Collins/ |accessdate=18 October 2010 |newspaper=The Southern Daily Echo |date=21 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506033122/http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/heritage/hampshire100/100historical/1488612.Herbert_Collins/ |archivedate=6 May 2010 }}</ref> became a director of the [[Welwyn Garden City]] Company in 1924<ref name="highfieldremembered" /><ref name="Purdom">{{cite book|last=Purdom|first=C. B.|title=The Building of Satellite Towns|year=1925|publisher=J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.|pages=Appendix B|url=http://cashewnut.me.uk/WGCbooks/web-WGC-books-1925-1.php#APP-A|access-date=8 October 2010|archive-date=7 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907020544/http://cashewnut.me.uk/WGCbooks/web-WGC-books-1925-1.php#APP-A|url-status=dead}}</ref> and co-founded the [[Swaythling]] [[Housing society]] on 26 November 1925.<ref name="echo heritage" /> Collins, along with his cofounders, accountant and civic leader Fred Woolley (the society's first chairman) and [[Bursledon]] [[brickworks]] director Claude Ashby, put up £200 worth of shares.<ref name="echo heritage" /> Collins' father, William, loaned the fledgling company £14,000.<ref name="echo heritage" /> |
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Collins lived at 38 Brookvale Road in [[Highfield, Southampton]] from 1930 to 1973, and a commemorative [[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] was installed there in July 2004.<ref name="blueplaque">{{cite web|title=English Heritage Blue Plaques in Southampton, Liverpool & Merseyside, Southampton, Birmingham and Portsmouth|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/k-o/national-scheme-list-blue-plaques.pdf|publisher=English Heritage}}</ref> During his time living there, Collins was responsible for the design of [[Swaythling Methodist Church]] in Burgess Road, built in 1932.<ref>{{cite book |title= Book of the Stonehams|last= Mann|first= John Edgar |year= 2002|publisher= Halsgrove |location= Tiverton |isbn= 1-84114-213-1|page=118}}</ref> |
Collins lived at 38 Brookvale Road in [[Highfield, Southampton]] from 1930 to 1973, and a commemorative [[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] was installed there in July 2004.<ref name="blueplaque">{{cite web|title=English Heritage Blue Plaques in Southampton, Liverpool & Merseyside, Southampton, Birmingham and Portsmouth|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/k-o/national-scheme-list-blue-plaques.pdf|publisher=English Heritage}}</ref> During his time living there, Collins was responsible for the design of [[Swaythling Methodist Church]] in Burgess Road, built in 1932.<ref>{{cite book |title= Book of the Stonehams|last= Mann|first= John Edgar |year= 2002|publisher= Halsgrove |location= Tiverton |isbn= 1-84114-213-1|page=118}}</ref> |
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In an effort to contribute to the post-war housing efforts, Collins submitted a suggestion to the July 1945 edition of the journal ''Architectural Design and Construction'' regarding constructing [[bungalow]]s from [[rammed earth]] combined with a small quantity of cement; his suggestion was repeated in ''The Architects' Journal'' in 1946.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Architects' Journal|year=1946|volume=103|pages=79|title=Rammed earth construction |url= |
In an effort to contribute to the post-war housing efforts, Collins submitted a suggestion to the July 1945 edition of the journal ''Architectural Design and Construction'' regarding constructing [[bungalow]]s from [[rammed earth]] combined with a small quantity of cement; his suggestion was repeated in ''The Architects' Journal'' in 1946.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Architects' Journal|year=1946|volume=103|pages=79|title=Rammed earth construction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEVUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Herbert+Collins%22}}</ref> |
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In 1957, Collins retired as a fellow of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] and his professional partnership with J. Normal Calton was dissolved by mutual consent; the pair had been trading as Collins & Calton.<ref name="RIBA 1957">{{cite journal |
In 1957, Collins retired as a fellow of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] and his professional partnership with J. Normal Calton was dissolved by mutual consent; the pair had been trading as Collins & Calton.<ref name="RIBA 1957">{{cite journal|title=Collins & Calton dissolved |journal=Royal Institute of British Architects Journal |year=1957 |volume=64 |url=http://books.goog6.co.uk/books?id=GfdUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Herbert+Collins%22+architect&dq=%22Herbert+Collins%22+architect&hl=en&ei=hkCvTMOhFs3Cswa3yeDoDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw |accessdate=8 October 2010 |page=164 & 245 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> At this time, Collins was living at 32 Carlton Crescent in Southampton.<ref name="RIBA 1957" /> Collins' retirement, however, did not mean an end to his interest in architecture and town planning, and in January 1962 a letter from Collins, sent from his Carlton Crescent address, was published in the ''Journal of the Town Planning Institute''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Letter from Collins |journal=Journal of the Town Planning Institute |year=1961 |volume=47–48 |pages=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WulUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Herbert+Collins%22}}</ref> |
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==Work== |
==Work== |
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Collins' housing estates have a distinctive style, usually with rows of terraced houses set around wide areas of greenery. |
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Collins' housing estates have a distinctive style, usually with rows of terraced houses set around wide areas of greenery. Two of the more notable Collins estates in Southampton (the Oakmount estate in Highfield and the Englemount estate in Bassett Green) have been designated as conservation areas by the city council,<ref>[http://herbertcollins.co.uk/home/content/view/24/45/ Herbert Collins Residents' Association: Southampton Conservation Areas]</ref> and the Orchards Way estate in [[West End, Hampshire|West End]] was designated a conservation area by [[Eastleigh (borough)|Eastleigh Borough]] Council in 1999.<ref>[http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/meetings/Published/C00000253/M00002948/AI00009917/WestEndOrchardsWayconservationleaf.pdf Eastleigh Borough Council: Orchards Way Conservation Area]</ref> Collins was responsible for the ca. 1928 design of [http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/33/08/330833_16ee85ce.jpg Glebe Court]. |
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Collins also made plans for a [[Garden city movement|garden city]] around [[Marchwood]], but these proposals were unrealised.<ref name="echo heritage" /><ref name="highfieldremembered">Mann, John Edgar and Ashton, Peter: "Highfield: A Village Remembered". Halsgrove, 1998. ISBN |
Collins also made plans for a [[Garden city movement|garden city]] around [[Marchwood]], but these proposals were unrealised.<ref name="echo heritage" /><ref name="highfieldremembered">Mann, John Edgar and Ashton, Peter: "Highfield: A Village Remembered". Halsgrove, 1998. {{ISBN|1-874448-91-4}}</ref> |
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===Rookfield Estate=== |
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[[File:Cascade Avenue, N10 - geograph.org.uk - 472961.jpg|thumb|Cascade Avenue]] |
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The Rookfield estate (also known as Rookfield Garden Village<ref name="vch">{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol6/pp111-122|title=Hornsey, including Highgate: Growth from the mid 19th century {{!}} British History Online|via=British History Online|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> or Rookfield Garden Estate<ref name="rookfield-dot-com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rookfield.com/index.html|title=The Rookfield Garden Village of W. J. Collins|website=rookfield.com|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref>) is situated near [[Muswell Hill]] in the [[London Borough of Haringey]]. It comprises Cascade Avenue, Rookfield Avenue and adjacent roads. |
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The Rookfield Estate [[Conservation area (United Kingdom)|conservation area]] was designated on 26 March 1976 and an [[Article 4 direction]] has been in place for the estate since 1978.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haringey.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning/planning-policy/design-and-conservation/conservation-areas/list-conservation-areas-haringey|title=List of conservation areas in Haringey {{!}} Haringey Council|website=haringey.gov.uk|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> |
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Collins' father William Jeffries Collins began the development of the Rookfield estate some time before 1910<ref name="vch"/> on land purchased in 1899.<ref name="rookfield-dot-com"/> When William Jeffries Collins moved his business to Southampton in 1911, his sons Herbert and William Brannan Collins took over the development. The estate was completed in 1936.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/mh/page129.htm|title=Rookfield Estate|website=locallocalhistory.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> |
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=== Uplands Estate === |
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The Uplands estate, in [[Highfield, Southampton]] was built between 1922 and 1936. It was the first development undertaken by Herbert Collins in Southampton. The Uplands Estate (Highfield) conservation area was designated in January 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southampton.gov.uk/policies/uplands%20estate%20leaflet%201998.pdf|title=The Uplands Estate (Highfield) Conservation Area}}</ref> |
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=== Bassett Green Estate === |
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The [[Bassett Green]] estate, which comprises Ethelburt Avenue and parts of Bassett Green Road and Leaside Way, was developed on land bought by William Jeffries Collins in 1925. The Ethelburt Avenue (Bassett Green Estate) conservation area was designated by [[Southampton City Council]] in September 1988.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southampton.gov.uk/policies/ethelburt-avenue-conservation-area-appraisal-management-plan-(approved)_tcm63-408114.pdf|title=Ethelburt Avenue (Bassett Green Estate) Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan}}</ref> |
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=== Swaythling Methodist Church === |
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[[286, Southampton|Swaythling Methodist Church]] was built in 1932 in a [[Georgian architecture#Post-Georgian developments|neo-Georgian]] style. It is [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade II listed]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031525|title=SWAYTHLING METHODIST CHURCH INCLUDING CHURCH HALL, WORKSHOPS AND MANSE, City of Southampton – 1031525 |publisher=Historic England|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> |
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===Climping Village Hall=== |
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The village hall in [[Climping]] West Sussex was designed by Herbert Collins.<ref name="ReferenceA">Herbert Collins 1885-1975 Architect and Worker for Peace by Robert Williams published Paul Cave Publications Ltd. in conjunction with The City of Southampton Society 1985 ISBN 0-86146-049-9</ref> |
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=== Orchards Way === |
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The Orchards Way estate is situated in [[West End, Hampshire]]. Designed in 1936 for the Hampshire Rural Cottage Improvement Society, it originally comprised 32 cottages, grouped in short terraces, two shops and a fire station and was more rurally situated than Collins' earlier developments. The Orchards Way conservation area was designated by [[Borough of Eastleigh|Eastleigh Borough Council]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/meetings/Published/C00000253/M00002948/AI00009917/WestEndOrchardsWayconservationleaf.pdf |title=Eastleigh Borough Council: Orchards Way Conservation Area |access-date=19 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306134046/http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/meetings/Published/C00000253/M00002948/AI00009917/WestEndOrchardsWayconservationleaf.pdf |archive-date=6 March 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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===Chandler's Ford United Reformed Church === |
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Originally Chandler's Ford Congregational Church, the building was designed by Collins in 1929.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> It has been extended and enlarged since then but the significant elements of the original style retained as shown on the church's website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urc-chandlersford.org.uk/page4.html|title=Chandler's Ford Congregational Church}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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| NAME = Collins, Herbert |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = British architect |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1885 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Edmonton, London]] |
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| DATE OF DEATH = 1975 |
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Latest revision as of 14:48, 19 October 2024
Herbert Collins | |
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Born | 1885 |
Died | 1975 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Architect |
Practice | Collins & Calton |
Buildings | 286 (building) |
Projects | Swaythling Housing Society Welwyn Garden City |
Herbert Collins (1885–1975) was a British architect, born in Edmonton, London.[1] He designed many of the suburban developments in the city of Southampton in the 1920s and 1930s.
Life
[edit]Collins designed houses in Southampton from 1922,[2] became a director of the Welwyn Garden City Company in 1924[3][4] and co-founded the Swaythling Housing society on 26 November 1925.[2] Collins, along with his cofounders, accountant and civic leader Fred Woolley (the society's first chairman) and Bursledon brickworks director Claude Ashby, put up £200 worth of shares.[2] Collins' father, William, loaned the fledgling company £14,000.[2]
Collins lived at 38 Brookvale Road in Highfield, Southampton from 1930 to 1973, and a commemorative English Heritage blue plaque was installed there in July 2004.[5] During his time living there, Collins was responsible for the design of Swaythling Methodist Church in Burgess Road, built in 1932.[6]
In an effort to contribute to the post-war housing efforts, Collins submitted a suggestion to the July 1945 edition of the journal Architectural Design and Construction regarding constructing bungalows from rammed earth combined with a small quantity of cement; his suggestion was repeated in The Architects' Journal in 1946.[7]
In 1957, Collins retired as a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and his professional partnership with J. Normal Calton was dissolved by mutual consent; the pair had been trading as Collins & Calton.[8] At this time, Collins was living at 32 Carlton Crescent in Southampton.[8] Collins' retirement, however, did not mean an end to his interest in architecture and town planning, and in January 1962 a letter from Collins, sent from his Carlton Crescent address, was published in the Journal of the Town Planning Institute.[9]
Work
[edit]Collins' housing estates have a distinctive style, usually with rows of terraced houses set around wide areas of greenery.
Collins also made plans for a garden city around Marchwood, but these proposals were unrealised.[2][3]
Rookfield Estate
[edit]The Rookfield estate (also known as Rookfield Garden Village[10] or Rookfield Garden Estate[11]) is situated near Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey. It comprises Cascade Avenue, Rookfield Avenue and adjacent roads.
The Rookfield Estate conservation area was designated on 26 March 1976 and an Article 4 direction has been in place for the estate since 1978.[12]
Collins' father William Jeffries Collins began the development of the Rookfield estate some time before 1910[10] on land purchased in 1899.[11] When William Jeffries Collins moved his business to Southampton in 1911, his sons Herbert and William Brannan Collins took over the development. The estate was completed in 1936.[13]
Uplands Estate
[edit]The Uplands estate, in Highfield, Southampton was built between 1922 and 1936. It was the first development undertaken by Herbert Collins in Southampton. The Uplands Estate (Highfield) conservation area was designated in January 1986.[14]
Bassett Green Estate
[edit]The Bassett Green estate, which comprises Ethelburt Avenue and parts of Bassett Green Road and Leaside Way, was developed on land bought by William Jeffries Collins in 1925. The Ethelburt Avenue (Bassett Green Estate) conservation area was designated by Southampton City Council in September 1988.[15]
Swaythling Methodist Church
[edit]Swaythling Methodist Church was built in 1932 in a neo-Georgian style. It is Grade II listed.[16]
Climping Village Hall
[edit]The village hall in Climping West Sussex was designed by Herbert Collins.[17]
Orchards Way
[edit]The Orchards Way estate is situated in West End, Hampshire. Designed in 1936 for the Hampshire Rural Cottage Improvement Society, it originally comprised 32 cottages, grouped in short terraces, two shops and a fire station and was more rurally situated than Collins' earlier developments. The Orchards Way conservation area was designated by Eastleigh Borough Council in 1999.[18]
Chandler's Ford United Reformed Church
[edit]Originally Chandler's Ford Congregational Church, the building was designed by Collins in 1929.[17] It has been extended and enlarged since then but the significant elements of the original style retained as shown on the church's website.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "SeaCity Museum". 19 October 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012 – via Facebook.
- ^ a b c d e "Herbert Collins". The Southern Daily Echo. 21 June 2007. Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ a b Mann, John Edgar and Ashton, Peter: "Highfield: A Village Remembered". Halsgrove, 1998. ISBN 1-874448-91-4
- ^ Purdom, C. B. (1925). The Building of Satellite Towns. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. Appendix B. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ^ "English Heritage Blue Plaques in Southampton, Liverpool & Merseyside, Southampton, Birmingham and Portsmouth" (PDF). English Heritage.
- ^ Mann, John Edgar (2002). Book of the Stonehams. Tiverton: Halsgrove. p. 118. ISBN 1-84114-213-1.
- ^ "Rammed earth construction". The Architects' Journal. 103: 79. 1946.
- ^ a b "Collins & Calton dissolved". Royal Institute of British Architects Journal. 64: 164 & 245. 1957. Retrieved 8 October 2010.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "Letter from Collins". Journal of the Town Planning Institute. 47–48: 79. 1961.
- ^ a b "Hornsey, including Highgate: Growth from the mid 19th century | British History Online". Retrieved 19 December 2019 – via British History Online.
- ^ a b "The Rookfield Garden Village of W. J. Collins". rookfield.com. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "List of conservation areas in Haringey | Haringey Council". haringey.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Rookfield Estate". locallocalhistory.co.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "The Uplands Estate (Highfield) Conservation Area" (PDF).
- ^ "Ethelburt Avenue (Bassett Green Estate) Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan" (PDF).
- ^ "SWAYTHLING METHODIST CHURCH INCLUDING CHURCH HALL, WORKSHOPS AND MANSE, City of Southampton – 1031525". Historic England. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ a b Herbert Collins 1885-1975 Architect and Worker for Peace by Robert Williams published Paul Cave Publications Ltd. in conjunction with The City of Southampton Society 1985 ISBN 0-86146-049-9
- ^ "Eastleigh Borough Council: Orchards Way Conservation Area" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2006.
- ^ "Chandler's Ford Congregational Church".