So Who Is Our Letter L?

   

An A-Z of Architects of Loughborough

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Plenty of architects with a Loughborough connection whose surname begins with the letter L, but I had set my heart on sharing with you the story of one particular person – but I have been singularly unsuccessful in finding out anything about them!!!

So, while stamping my li’l old feet, I shall resort to mentioning that the Leicestershire County Council (LCC), like other councils across the UK, had, and still have, an in-house team of architects who are focussed on building design, building renovation, and improvements to the local environment via its built heritage. This has been the case for many years, and I have already shared with you the story of Ernest George Fowler, who was employed in this capacity.  

Back in the 1960s, when there was a lot of building demolition and new builds happening, and one such person who worked for the LCC at that time was S.W. Lax, who, according to Leonard Cantor in his celebratory book, Loughborough College: a centenary history 1909-2009, reports that it was Lax who was responsible for designing the main building on the Loughborough College campus, which I’m presuming (someone will tell me if I’m wrong!) is the tall building off Epinal Way, behind the Cope Auditorium (which I think was designed by another of the County Architects, Arthur Ernest Thorndyke), and which has recently been modernised.

Sorry for such a short entry! If anyone has any more information, I’d love to hear about it!

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What follows is the only building I’ve discovered that was designed by S. W. Lax

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

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Sole Designs

*Loughborough College main building (opened 1966)

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