1875 – No.1 Poultry, London
Early design proposal for No.1 Poultry, which was ultimately to become the Mappin &
Early design proposal for No.1 Poultry, which was ultimately to become the Mappin &
The Curriers’ Company has a long and complex history, dating from 1272 when the “Mistery of Curriers”
Detail of Queen Victoria Street front, elevation & section, as published in The Building News,
John James Burnet was born at Blythswood, Glasgow on 31 May 1857, the youngest of the three sons of John Burnet and his wife Elizabeth Hay Bennet.
Perspective View including ground & 1st floor plans published in Modern Cottage Architecture 1904.
Edward John May was born a Roman Catholic in 1853 and articled to Decimus Burton in May 1869. He was Burton’s last pupil.
William Flockhart was born in Glasgow in 1852, the son of William Flockhart, tailor and clothier, and Margaret Gibson. There was a family link of some kind to Sir William Flockhart of Duncan Flockhart &
Edward Guy Dawber was born at King’s Lynn in 1861, the son of a merchant there. He was articled to William Adams in the same town about 1877 and then moved to Dublin as assistant to Sir Thomas Newenham Deane,