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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|1-874448-91-4}}</ref> |
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|website=www.british-history.ac.uk|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=www.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=www.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=www.locallocalhistory.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:20, 19 December 2019
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
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
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,[10] and the Orchards Way estate in West End was designated a conservation area by Eastleigh Borough Council in 1999.[11] Collins was responsible for the ca. 1928 design of Glebe Court.
Collins also made plans for a garden city around Marchwood, but these proposals were unrealised.[2][3]
Rookfield Estate
The Rookfield estate (also known as Rookfield Garden Village[12] or Rookfield Garden Estate[13]) 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.[14]
Collins' father William Jeffries Collins began the development of the Rookfield estate some time before 1910[12] on land purchased in 1899.[13] 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.[15]
References
- ^ "SeaCity Museum". Facebook. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Herbert Collins". The Southern Daily Echo. 21 June 2007. Archived from the original on 18 October 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Herbert Collins Residents' Association: Southampton Conservation Areas Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eastleigh Borough Council: Orchards Way Conservation Area
- ^ a b "Hornsey, including Highgate: Growth from the mid 19th century | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ a b "The Rookfield Garden Village of W. J. Collins". www.rookfield.com. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "List of conservation areas in Haringey | Haringey Council". www.haringey.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Rookfield Estate". www.locallocalhistory.co.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
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