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Saturday, 11 April 2026

So Who Was Anthony David Jacobs?

An A-Z of Architects of Loughborough

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Short biography of Anthony David Jacobs

The birth of Anthony David Jacobs was registered in the first quarter of 1927 at Brentford, in Essex. He was the son of David Albert (1892-1969) and his wife, Emma Elizabeth née Kite, who had married on 10 April 1918 at St Mary, in Acton. They already had a son, Richard born in 1919, and a daughter, Betty Diana who was born in 1922. David Albert’s occupation was a commercial traveller.

Shortly after the birth of Anthony David, the family moved to Argentina, and remained there until his retirement, returning to Acton in 1938. By 1939, the family had moved to Holt Drive in Loughborough, and 11-year-old Anthony was attending the Loughborough Grammar School, having been previously educated at St George’s College in Buenos Aires. In 1952, at the age of 25, Anthony married Doris Hewitt, and the couple went on to have three children.

Initially, Anthony had pursued a career in poultry farming, but by 1950 had qualified as an architect, and worked for Francis Haynes, who had continued the architectural practice, A.E. King, after the latter’s death. Around 1954, Anthony opened his own architectural practice, firstly, on Forest Road, and later at No.1 on The Coneries.

Sadly, Anthony died on 15 October 1966, just a few months after the opening of John Storer House, a building which he had designed. He was aged only 39, and was living at Barrow Road, Burton-on-the-Wolds at the time of his death. He was outlived not only by his wife and three children, but also by his father, who died in 1969, and his mother, who died in 1975.

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What follows is a selection of buildings designed by Anthony David Jacobs

Note: this is a selective, not a comprehensive listing.

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Sole Designs

*House on Chaveney Road, Quorn (1954)

*House on Moscow Lane, Shepshed

*Observatory for the Limehurst Natural History Society (1961)

*John Storer House (1966)

*Shops on Biggin Street (opposite The Rushes)

*Mormon Church, Alan Moss Road

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John Storer House

The opening of John Storer House by Princess Margaret on 29 April 1966 was widely reported in the local press. The Nottingham Evening Post had the following to say:

“Bright sunshine greeted Princess Margaret when she visited Loughborough to open John Storer House, a multi-purpose centre for social services, today. Thousands of people lined the route, including schoolchildren in organised parties, and they cheered when her car slowed down to walking pace while passing them.”

She had arrived at East Midlands Airport, and travelled through Castle Donington, and Kegworth, and into Loughborough along Ashby Road, Snells Nook Road, and Forest Road. Once she had arrived at JSH:

“The National Anthem was played on the town’s famous War Memorial carillon in nearby Queen’s Park. A civic welcome was given by the Mayor (George Sharpe), who said Loughborough had looked forward to the Princess’s first visit to the town.”

Princess Margaret toured the building, and she:

“visited every room and spoke to dozens of people, including those who will be using the building and others who will give voluntary service, from schoolchildren to members of many local organisations."

The ground-floor windows of JSH pictured in 2013

Bird Observatory

A description of the new observatory for Limehurst Natural History Society, which was to replace the earlier one that had burned down on the island on the River Soar, appeared in the Leicester Mercury and suggested that the striking building wouldn’t be out of place at an airport.

“The ground floor incorporates two double bunks and a galley. The glazed “promenade” deck and railed-in roof some 32 feet long give the observatory the air of an airport building …”

Whether or not this structure was ever actually built, I’m not sure.

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Friday, 10 April 2026

So Who Was Isaac Charles Gilbert?

An A-Z of Architects of Loughborough

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Oh dear, here I am, cheating again, and using a forename rather than a surname! Hopefully, you will forgive me when you read this interesting story!

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Short biography of Isaac Charles Gilbert

Isaac Charles Gilbert was born in Hull in 1822, to the Reverend Joseph Gilbert, a Congregational Minister, and his second wife, Ann, née Taylor. Joseph’s first wife, Sarah Chapman whom he had married in 1805 died in 1812, and he had married Ann in 1813 in Ongar, Essex. after their marriage, the newly-wed couple had moved to Rotherham, before moving to Hull by the time of the birth of their third child, Joseph Henry, in 1817. Apparently, when Joseph Henry was born, Ann had wanted to name him Isaac after Ann’s brother and father, but this was not to be. Between the birth of Joseph and the baby eventually called Isaac - the focus of this article - came another daughter, Jane Jeffreys, followed by our Isaac.

Life at Hull proved busy and taxing for father, Joseph, and the family moved to Nottingham for a somewhat quieter life! By the time the 1841 census was taken, Isaac was aged 15, and working as an architect’s clerk in Lendal, York. It is likely that the architect he was working for was James Pigott Pritchett, who in 1841 was aged about 50, and had moved to York in around 1813, but also had an architectural practice in London. Pritchett’s oldest son (born somewhere around 1815) was a congregational minister, and another two sons were also architects, as was one of his nephews.

On 7 January 1851, Isaac, aged about 29, married Annie Gee, aged about 22, in the parish church of St Nicholas, Nottingham. Isaac was living at St James Street, Nottingham and was an architect, while Ann was living on Granby Street, Nottingham. The couple made their home at 13 Clinton Street, Nottingham, and Isaac was listed on the census return as an architect and surveyor. Daughter Annie Louise was born the following year, and in 1856, the family welcomed baby Jane Taylor. In 1861 they continued to live on Clinton Street, and four more children came along.

By the time of the 1871 census, the family had moved to Arthur Street in Nottingham, where Isaac was listed as a 49-year-old architect, his wife, Annie was 42, and five children were still living with them, along with two servants. When the 1881 census was taken, Isaac was visiting his brother, Joseph Henry, and his second wife, Maria, in Harpenden. Joseph was a noteworthy chemist, focussing on improving agriculture, and he was awarded a knighthood for his services, in 1893. Isaac’s wife Annie had taken up teaching, and stayed behind at the family home at 6 Arthur Street, Nottingham, with daughters Annie Louise and Alice who were assistant teachers, Madeline who was a governess, and Isabel who was a scholar.

On 4 March 1885, Isaac Charles Gilbert, gentleman of 6 Arthur Street, Nottingham, died. His will was proved on 22 May 1885, and his personal estate was valued at £1,565 0s. 7d. His widow, Anne continued to run her successful school at the Arthur Street house until her own death on 27 May 1908. Her effects amounted to £2,248 8s. 3d.. Her obituary suggested she was responsible for the education of many of those of whom the city of Nottingham had reason to be proud.

I have been unable to trace many buildings that were designed by Isaac, but those I have found seem to be centred around Nottinghamshire, with a few at Ongar, which was where his mother was from.

His work in Loughborough was the Girls’ High School, designed in collaboration with Sidney Stevenson, the building being constructed by Clipsham, who was based just outside Newark. This is how the building was described in the Leicester Daily Mercury of October 1879, at the official opening of the building:

“The building cannot be assigned to any particular style of architecture, as it is made up of a variety of styles, chiefly of ancient date, the Elizabethan being particularly noticeable, and altogether presents a heavy appearance from the exterior. The school is built of red bricks pointed with black mortar, and relieved with white stone dressings. There are two front entrances, reached by four steps each, one being the entrance to the schools, and the other the private entrance to the mistress's house. The roof is of ancient Gothic build, high, and covered with small Broseley tiles.

Internally the schools are all that can be desired, the latest improvements having been brought into use in every department. At the north end is a large schoolroom, 44ft. by 22ft., and 13ft. high; a well-lighted and lofty room, excellently adapted for the purpose which it is intended to fulfil. This and all the rooms are ventilated by means of Tobin's system of ventilation, and heated chiefly by means of stoves. The woodwork throughout is of pitch pine varnished.

There are two corridors on the ground floor, and on the right of the large one, leading to the south, are three classrooms, each 18ft. by 14ft. and the same height as the schoolroom. At the end of these is the dining room, which is 32ft. 6in. long by 18ft. wide. On this floor are lavatories, cloak rooms, water closets, and other conveniences.

The mistress's house occupies the south end of the building, and is a very convenient and excellently fitted residence. The upper rooms are reached by means of a staircase leading from the south end of the large corridor, and here the dormitories are particularly noticeable. They are seventeen in number, the majority of them being 17ft. by 10ft., and 13ft. high, but two are larger. Each cubicle is fitted with gas, water, and lavatory basin, and all are heated by gas fires. These are fitted up with the most recent inventions, and are certainly a very commendable feature, the arrangements for ventilation and comfort being equal to any similar establishment in the country. A bathroom is built at each end of the dormitories on the left side, and the baths are supplied with water by the patent Geyser gas system, a recent invention which, though not yet much in use, is sure to become highly popular. At the extreme north end of the upper floor is a large room adapted for a cloak room, while water closets are placed at each end of the dormitories.

Another useful feature is a building in the south end of the school yard, some distance from the mistress's house, which will answer the double purpose of a laundry and a sick room. It will be used as a laundry except in case of an outbreak of any contagious sickness among the boarders, when it will be utilised for isolating the patients. There is also a large plot of ground at the back of the building which will be adapted as a recreation ground. The entrance to the schools will be from Victoria-street, through the end of the New-walk [now known as Burton Walks], where a great improvement has been effected. The plans for the building were prepared by Messrs. Gilbert and Stevenson architects, of Nottingham, and the schools erected at a cost of £4,300 by Mr. Clipsham, builder, of Norwell ... As a whole the new schools are a credit to the town, and capitally suited for the purpose for which they are erected.”

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What follows is a selection of buildings designed by Isaac Charles Gilbert

Note: this is a selective, not a comprehensive listing.

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Sole Designs

*Corn Exchange, Worksop (1851)

*Ongar Congregation Chapel Sunday School (1865)

*College, on College Street, Nottingham (1846)

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Joint Designs

*Loughborough Girls’ High School (1878) with Sidney Stevenson

*Cemetery Chapels at Ongar (1866) with Watson Fothergill

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Basic facts

Architect – Isaac Charles Gilbert

Parents: Joseph Gilbert, an independent minister, and Ann Taylor, known for hymn writing

Date and place of Birth: c.1822, Hull

Siblings: Josiah (b.1814), Anne Taylor (b.1816), Joseph Henry Gilbert (later Sir) (b.1817), Edward William (b.1818, d.1827), Jane Jeffreys (b.1820), Caroline (b.1823), and James Montgomery (b.1825)

Spouse: Annie Gee (m.1851, St Nicholas, Nottingham)

Children: Ann Louise (b.1852) Jane Taylor (b.1856), Alice May (b.1863), Magdaline (b.1864), Charles Humphreys (b.1866), Isabel (b.1868)

Death: 4 March 1885, Nottingham

Places lived: Hull; Nottingham; York; 13 Clinton Street, Nottingham; 6 Arthur Street, Nottingham

Place of work/Offices: Not known

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Thursday, 9 April 2026

So Who Was Willie Thomas Hampton?

An A-Z of Architects of Loughborough

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Short biography of Willie Thomas Hampton

Willie Thomas Hampton’s birth was registered at St Luke’s, London, in the third quarter of 1860, but by the time of the 1861 census return, his parents had moved the family to Fawkes Street in Derby. Josiah, Willie’s father, was an engineer, aged 45, who had been baptised in Road (now Rode) in Somerset, and who had married Sarah Clements at St Augustine the Less church in Gloucestershire. Willie had older brothers Josiah (18), and Walter (17) an engineer, and three older sisters, Sarah (13) working in a silk mill, and Hannah (11) and Alice (9) both scholars.

By 1867 the family had moved to Regent Street, Loughborough, where Josiah was an engineer. The house was listed as number 64 on the 1871 census return, which was either a workshop, or a home with workshops. Josiah’s occupation listed on the census return was now a screw and nail maker, while eldest son, Josiah, now 28, was a screw machine worker. Sarah was looking after the house, while Willie, aged 10, was a scholar.

In 1879, having completed his education, Willie opened an architectural practice from 64 Regent Street, where, according to an advert he placed in the Hinckley News and General Advertiser, he prepared plans, specifications, and estimates for all kinds of buildings and machinery, as well as searching “the novelty of inventions and patents” all on most “reasonable terms” – and at short notice, too!

Early in 1881, Willie married Lucy North in Loughborough, and in April that year they were lodging with Lucy’s parents, retired commercial traveller, Henry and his wife Ann. Sadly, the birth and death of Willie and Lucy’s first son, Willie Thomas, was recorded in the third quarter of 1881. Further sadness for the pair, when their second son, Ernest born and died in the third quarter of 1882. Thankfully, Willie North, who was born in October 1884 survived and went on to follow in his father’s footsteps as an architect and surveyor, and lived to be 75. Willie and Lucy’s daughter, Lucy Minnie, was born in January 1886, and lived until 1947. From 1885 to 1886, Willie had a pupil architect, Joshua James Follett.

During these early days of raising a family, Willie was working hard on designs and plans, which included three cottages on Oxford Street, at the same time as Messengers built their nearby foundry, and as other folk designed a few houses for Paget and Leopold Streets. By 1888 he had moved his architectural practice to The Rushes. 1889 saw the opening of the Medical Aid Centre on Fennel Street, which offered both a home for some of the local friendly societies, and medical help for the members. This important building had been designed by Willie.

In 1891, Willie, wife, Lucy, and children Willie North and Lucy Minnie were living at 41 The Rushes, on the corner of Shakespeare Street. Willie now had a pupil architect and surveyor working with him, his cousin, Stephen Hampton Andrews, who was aged 18. Willie’s niece (the daughter of his sister, Hannah) was working as their general domestic servant. For a few years, Willie’s design work seemed to focus on buildings in what we would today call North West Leicestershire.

In 1892 Willie was the architect behind the alterations to the Old Gate Inn, on Fairfield Road, Hugglescote, which included a two-storey extension, and alterations to the window openings throughout. The pub was tied to the James Eadie brewery, and the building had originally been constructed in 1774 – the date was highlighted in blue bricks, rather like those on our Organ Grinder. Willie designed the Constitutional Club at Coalville, which incorporated an early Victorian building at the rear. The foundation stones were laid in January 1897, and the building, faced in Ellistown redbrick, was constructed by the local firm, Beckworth & Son.

From 1893 to 1898, Frank Goddard was Willie's architect pupil, an dhe remained as an assistant from 1898 until 1902. Frank's time with Willie overlapped with other assistant, Thomas Henry Dobson who was with him from 1895, until 1900.

In 1898, Willie was initiated into the Howe and Charnwood Lodge of the Freemasons, in Loughborough, and in 1901 the family were living on Derby Road, and 16-year-old Willie North was a pupil architect to his father at his practice on Swan Street. Over the years Willie had done a lot of work on plans for improvements to pubs, and in August 1901 he was the architect behind some extensive alterations to the Plough Inn at Thorpe Acre.

Also in 1901, Willie was elected as the Conservative member of the town council for the Storer Ward, a role he would hold until 1907, and which would see him closely involved with developments in the town. In 1908 Willie and son Willie moved the architectural practice to Ashby Road. In 1910 Willie was on the Loughborough Education Committee and was architect to that committee. In the summer of 1910, he was supervising the painting and repairs of Loughborough schools during the summer holidays.

Sadly, Willie’s life was cut short. Willie died as the result of injuries sustained in a car accident, which happened on Ashby Road, when he was travelling to Shepshed in August 1910 from his home at 1 Frederick Street. Probate was granted at Leicester on 10 October 1910 to Lucy Hampton, his widow. Effects were £2,722 4s. 9d..

During his lifetime, Willie had been architect to the Loughborough Board of Guardians, and the Shepshed Urban District Council. He was architect of the County Council schools which were being erected at Castle Donnington in 1910, and was the architect behind many alterations to Loughborough pubs.

In his spare time, Willie was a keen angler, and a leading remember of the Loughborough and Soar Angling Society, often taking the chair at the Society’s meetings. On August 27th 1910, at the prize-giving event in the Kings Head Hotel which followed the Society’s annual fishing match, a vote of condolence was passed with the family of the late Mr Hampton. At the annual meeting of 1909, Willie had himself lamented the recent passing of Mr Hussey Packe, the Society’s president.

Willie’s widow, Lucy continued to live at Frederick Street before moving to live with her daughter, Lucy Minnie at 34 Arthur Street, where she died on 4 February 1928.

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What follows is a selection of buildings either designed by, or altered by Willie Thomas Hampton

Note: this is a selective, not a comprehensive listing.

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Selected Works

*Unity House 1889

*Constitutional Club 1899

*Plough Inn Thorpe Acre alterations 1901

*Constitutional Club Coalville 1887

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Brief details

Name: Willie Thomas Hampton

Parents: Josiah and Sarah Clements

Date and place of Birth: 1860 St Luke’s London

Spouse: Lucy North

Children: Willie Thomas and Ernest both died in infancy. Willie North (became a surveyor and architect), Lucy Minnie

Death: August 1910 - accident

Places lived: Derby, Regent Street Loughborough, The Rushes, Derby Road, Regent Street, Frederick Street

Place of work/Offices: Regent Street, The Rushes (c.1888-c.1901), Swan Street (c.1901-1908), Ashby Road (1908-?)

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Dyer, Lynne (2026). So Who Was Willie Thomas Hampton? Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2026/04/so-who-was-willie-thomas-hampton.html [Accessed 9 April 2026]

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Wednesday, 8 April 2026

So Who Were the Goddards?

An A-Z of Architects of Loughborough

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I should perhaps share with you the work of the architectural practice Gollins Melvin Ward and Partners, who were responsible for the design of the Towers Hall of residence, opened in 1965, on what is now the university campus, but I have already written about this elsewhere, so instead I present you with the Goddards!

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Goddard, Paget, and Goddard

So, you may already know that the HSBC bank in Loughborough Market Place is a grade II listed building that was designed by the Leicester architectural firm of Goddard, Paget, and Goddard.

Short company history

Goddard and Paget was founded in Leicester in 1874 by Joseph Goddard, son of Henry Goddard an architect, and son of Henry Goddard also an architect, and Alfred Henry Paget, both of Leicester. In 1889 they were joined by Joseph’s son, Henry Langton Goddard, and the firm name changed to Goddard Paget and Goddard. This changed again in 1895 when Walter Albert Catlow joined, and became Goddard Paget & Catlow, then again in 1900, to Goddard & Catlow.

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Brief Details

Name: Goddard, Paget, and Goddard

Place of work/Offices: Leicester

Partners:

Joseph Goddard (1840-1900)

Alfred Henry Paget (1848-1909)

Henry Langton Goddard (1866-1944)

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What follows is a selection of buildings designed by the architectural practice of Goddard, Paget, and Goddard

Note: this is a selective, not a comprehensive listing.

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Selected Works

*Loughborough‘s HSBC bank for the Leicestershire Banking company 1898 (Goddard, Paget, and Goddard)

*Atkins Building Lower Bond Street Hinckley, opposite the museum, the oldest knitting factory in the world, now a creative business space 1875-7 (Goddard and Paget)

*Leicester Town Hall Clock 1868 (Joseph Goddard alone)

*Leicester’s Thomas Cook building rebuild 1894 (Goddard, Paget, and Goddard)

*Radcliff church 1879 (Goddard and Paget)

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Short biography of Frank Goddard

An unrelated architect by the name of Goddard also has a connection with Loughborough, although most of his designs appear in what is now North West Leicestershire.

Frank Goddard was born in Saltley, Birmingham, on 17 December 1878, and baptised on 19 January 1879. His parents were Edmund Goddard and Eliza née Richardson, who had married in 1873, probably in Quorn, which is where Eliza was born. Sadly, Edmund, who was an engine driver, died on 2 February 1880 in Wolverhampton, so at the time the 1881 census was taken, Eliza and her son Frank, aged 2, had moved from the family home at 23 Alum Rock Road, Saltley, and were living at 42 Waring Street, Leicester, where Eliza was a haberdasher.

In April 1882, Eliza remarried, to Samuel Skelham, the wedding taking place in Quorn. Thus, when the census was taken in 1891, Eliza and son, Frank, now aged 12, were living with Samuel and the couple’s daughter, Edith, aged 3, in Hugglescote.

In 1893, and until 1898, Frank Goddard was articled to Loughborough-based architect Willie Thomas Hampton. Having completed his apprenticeship, he stayed on to work as Hampton’s assistant until about 1902. Thus, on the 1901 census returns Frank’s occupation is noted as an assistant architect, and he is living with his mother, stepfather, and half-sister at Quorn Cottage, Park Road, Coalville.

In 1902, Frank Goddard set up his own practice in Coalville, and then took on Thomas Bertram Wain as a partner in 1903. Their offices were at Station Chambers on High Street, Coalville. In 1911, Frank was elected as a licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Meanwhile, in 1907, Frank had married Constance Annie Wheatley Field in Loughborough, and in 1909 their daughter, Margaret was born. In 1911, the family were living at Oxford Villas, Coalville, and Frank’s occupation is listed as architect and surveyor. In 1918, the family were joined by another child, son Frank Reginald.

In 1921, Frank, his wife, and two children were living in a 7-roomed house at 73 Station Road, Coalville, and Frank was an architect and surveyor, working in his own business. Young Frank was still living with his parents in 1939, at 5 Broom Leys, Coalville, when he was aged 21, but he was working at the Westminster Bank on the Bullring Shepshed, a building designed by Loughborough architect Albert Edward King.

Looking at Frank’s social life, it seemed quite busy! He was a superintendent of the Christ Church Sunday School in Coalville for around 23 years, and at one time a chorister and choirmaster there; he was also have been superintendent of the Coalville Scout troop; he helped to organise the Church Lads’ Brigade; he might have been a member of the local YMCA, and was a member of the Coalville Bowling Club, and the Gracedieu Lodge of Freemasons.

Work for the architects Goddard and Wain was quite prolific, and centred around public house alterations to bring them up to standard; clubs and buildings for the local Co-operative Society; church building and alteration; schools, and housing. As already noted, the majority of their work was in Coalville, Ibstock, Battram etc.. Frank stayed with the practice until he retired in 1940, and moved to live at Leigh on Sea, where he and Constance lived at 62 Darlinghurst Grove. It was here that Frank died in June 1956, probate being granted to Constance, and effects amounting to £575 18s. 5d.. Constance continued to live in the house until her own death in September 1981.

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What follows is a selection of buildings either designed by, or altered by Goddard and Wain

Note: this is a selective, not a comprehensive listing.

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Specifically

*Improvements to the White Horse pub, Whitwick (1904)

*Design for a new pub to replace the Anchor Inn at Swannington, the rebuilding having been suggested by Willie Thomas Hampton (1907)

*Alterations to the Crown and Cushion pub at Whitwick (1908)

*Alterations to Ibstock Baptist church (1908)

*Design of Coalville council School (1909)

*Design of Battram council School (1909)

*Design of Coalville Working Men’s Co-operative Society premises at Swannington (1909)

*Design for Coalville Co-operative Society branch at Bagworth (1910)

*Design of the Wesleyan Reform Sunday School at Ibstock (1911)

*Design of a mines rescue station for Ashby (1912)

*Design of a picture palace for Ashby (1913)

*Design of New Milk Dairy Premises for Ashby (1916)

*Council housing for Coalville (joint architects with McCarthy) (1920)

*Design for houses at Appleby Magna (1932)

*Design for houses at Swannington (1935)

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Basic facts

Architect – Frank Goddard

Parents: Edmund Goddard and Elizabeth née Richardson

Date and place of Birth: 17 December 1878, Saltley, Birmingham

Spouse: Constance Annie Wheatley Field

Children: Margaret (b.1909), Frank Reginald (b.1918)

Death: 1956, Leigh-on-Sea

Places lived: 23 Alum Rock Road, Saltley (1879); 42 Waring Street, Leicester (1881); Hugglescote (1891); Quorn Cottage, Park Road, Coalville (1901); Oxford Villas, Coalville (1911); 73 Station Road, Coalville (1921); 5 Broom Leys, Coalville (1939); 62 Darlinghurst Grove, Leigh-on-Sae (1940 onwards)

Place of work/Offices: Station Chambers, High Street, Coalville

Qualifications:

1911 – Licentiate of RIBA

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Thank you for reading this blog.

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Dyer, Lynne (2026). So Who Were the Goddards? Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2026/04/so-who-were-goddards.html [Accessed 8 April 2026]

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