1905 – Newnham North, Lancashire
Perspective View including ground plan from The Building News, September 22nd 1905.
Perspective View including ground plan from The Building News, September 22nd 1905.
No.112 is the left hand site of the photograph, the retail unit at street level being a branch of Specsavers.
Designed by Godfrey W. Ferguson who was architect to the Northern Banking Co. and designed many of its branch banks across the country.
Established as Winnipeg’s Northern Bank in 1905 and merging with the exclusively Ontario-based Crown Bank of Canada in 1908 to form the Northern Crown Bank.
Designed by the architects Houston & Houston for Beamish & Crawford for who they had designed other buildings,
Architect:
Andrew Carnegie, the wealthy industrialist, was asked in 1902 to consider sponsoring offices and a library for the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
The architect Robert Young received this commission after he organised a competition with a completely unrealistic budget.