Albert Nelson Bromley

Albert Nelson Bromley (15 July 1850 – 16 August 1934) was an English architect based in Nottingham.[1]

Albert Nelson Bromley
Boot’s Depot, Pelham Street, Nottingham
Born15 July 1850
Stafford
Died16 August 1934.
Nottingham
NationalityEnglish
Alma materMr Shipley’s Academy, Lincoln
OccupationArchitect
PracticePartner with H.G. Watkins 1905-1928 and TJN Cartwright and T.H.Waumsley (1928-34)
ProjectsDesign of many shops for Boots of Nottingham
Nottingham Joint Stock Bank, Long Eaton, Derbyshire 1891
Fruit Store, 37-41 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham 1900
Boots the Chemist, St Peter's Street, Derby 1912

History

He was born in Stafford on 15 July 1850, the son of Charles Nelson Bromley, a surgeon (1817–1853) and Emma Bakewell (1819–1907). His father died two years later and the family moved to Nottingham, where they lived with Bromley's maternal uncle, the architect and surveyor Frederick Bakewell. Bromley was educated in Nottingham, and then at Mr George Shipley's academy, a boarding school in Lincoln. In 1867 he was articled to his uncle but by 1871 he was back in Lincoln and working as an architect's clerk in Henry Goddard's architectural practice. Then from 1872 he spent the next 14 months travelling in Greece, Turkey and the United States. He returned to London and 1874 was working in the office of Charles Barry, junior. He then returned to Nottingham and 1875 he was taken into partnership with his uncle.[1] Within two years Bakewell went into retirement. In 1886 he was elected FRIBA. He became principal architect to the Nottingham School Board and undertook several projects for the Nottingham and District Tramways Company. He was also architect to the National Telephone Company.[2]

In 1897 he was in partnership with Thomas Herbert Waumsley, and from 1912 with Harry Garnham Watkins as Bromley and Watkins. In 1904 Thomas Cecil Howitt, the future architect of the Council House and Council housing, joined Bromley's office as an apprentice,[3] and from 1907 was his assistant. In 1928 Harry Garnham Watkins left the partnership[4] and Thomas Nelson Cartwight (1905-1984) joined, and Bromley, Cartwright and Waumsley were architects to Boots the Chemist. (Nelson later the partnership in 1948 at set up with John Woollatt as Evans, Cartwright and Woollatt.)

He married Elizabeth Skepper Brogden (1853–1940) on 11 April 1878 in St Swithin's Church, Lincoln[5] and they had one daughter, Kathleen Christiana Bromley (1879–1967).

He died on 16 August 1934 at 15 Newcastle Drive, Nottingham and left an estate of £63,359 14s. 2d.[6] (equivalent to £4,531,200 in 2019).[7]

Works
  • 15-17 Newcastle Drive, The Park Estate, Nottingham 1878
  • Board School, Queen's Walk, Nottingham 1878-79[2]
  • Tram station, Basford for the Nottingham and District Tramways Company 1881
  • Nottingham Board Boys’ School, Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham 1887[2]
  • Royal Midland Institute for the Blind, Chaucer Street, Nottingham 1888
  • Clarendon Street Board School 1889[2]
  • Midland Bank, Market Place, Heanor, Derbyshire ca. 1890[8]
  • Nottingham Joint Stock Bank (later Midland Bank), Market Place, Long Eaton 1891[9]
  • Boots the Chemist, 11-13 London Road, Liverpool 1896
  • National School, Nether Street, Beeston, Nottingham 1898
  • Boots the Chemist, Harpur Street and Silver Street, Bedford, 1898
  • Boots the Chemist, Grantham, 1899[10]
Former Boots Shop, Grantham
  • Solicitor's Office, Bottle Lane, Nottingham 1898-99[2]
  • Telephone Exchange, George Street, Nottingham 1898-99[2]
  • Fruit store, 37-41 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham 1900[2] (Argos in 2016)
  • Boots the Chemist store, Pelham Street/High Street, Nottingham 1903-04[2]
  • Boots the Chemist shop and tea rooms, Turney Street, Nottingham 1905[2]
  • Boots Store No 2 1905-07[11]
  • Queen's Hotel, Arkwright Street, Nottingham 1905 (ground floor bays)
  • Boots the Chemist store, Buxton, 1906
  • Boots the Chemist store, Lytham St Anne's, 1906
  • Boots the Chemist store, 252-254 West Street, Sheffield 1906
  • Telephone Exchange, George Street, Nottingham 1907[2] (additional two bays)
  • Boots the Chemist store, 45 St Peter's Street, Derby 1912
  • Boots the Chemist, Northgate, Gloucester 1914[12]
  • Boots the Chemist store, Southend, 1915
  • Boots the Chemist finishing rooms, Queen's Road, Nottingham 1915-16[2]
  • 22 Carrington Street, Nottingham Petrol service station and offices for Anglo-American Oil Co. 1923
  • 1-3 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham 1927 (south bay)
  • Boots the Chemist store, Leicester
  • National Provincial Bank, Smithy Row, Nottingham 1927-28[2]
  • Boots the Chemist store, Brighton, 1927–28
  • Boots the Chemist, Argyle Street and Union Street, Glasgow 1928.[13]
  • Boots the Chemist store, Cheltenham
  • Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital 1928-29[14]
  • Women's Hospital, Peel Street, Nottingham 1928-29[15]
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Literature
  • Ken Brand Albert Nelson Bromley, Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter, 1988, 2-9; 1989, 14-17.
  • Antonia Brodie (ed), Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, Vol 1, pg. 263.
  • Kathryn A. Morrison, (2003) English Shops & Shopping, Yale University Press.
  • Obituary. RIBA Journal, 24 November 1934, 143
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References
  1. "Brodie" (2001), pg.263
  2. Harwood, Elain (2008). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300126662.
  3. Armitage, Jill (15 April 2015). Nottingham. A History. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445635194.
  4. "No. 33389". The London Gazette. 1 June 1928. p. 3811.
  5. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths". Worcester Journal. England. 20 April 1878. Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "£63,000 Nottingham Estate". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 9 October 1934. Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  8. Historic England, "Midland Bank (1334839)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 18 March 2017
  9. Historic England, "Midland Bank (1109037)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 18 March 2017
  10. Katheryn Morrison, Boots’ Architects. 1. Albert Nelson Bromley Building Our Past
  11. Historic England, "The Embankment (former Boots Store No 2) (1430894)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 18 March 2017
  12. "Shop developments in Glo'ster". Gloucestershire Chronicle. England. 9 May 1914. Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. "Albert Nelson Bromley". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  14. "Harlow Wood Hospital". Nottingham Journall. England. 29 July 1929. Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  15. "Opening of Nottingham's New Hospital for Women". Nottingham Journall. England. 5 November 1929. Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  • Building our Past
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