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Richard Hall Architect

Does anyone have information on Richard Hall, Bangor architect (1866-1938) or his son Douglas, who continued the firm?

Posted by Adam Voelcker 27/02/2008 0027
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Richard Hall Grovesnor House Bangor City Social Club Deiniol Road

http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hisso/fbcfcsc.htm
http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hisso/broadb.htm

Of Richard Hall, Dated March 1904

Grosvenor House, Deiniol Road, Bangor, LL57 2UR

2 Plates of the private residence on the corner of Farrar and Deiniol Roads. Demolished 2009 (C08A/0108/11/LL). At some point this was a Retirement Home and of later years the home of the Bangor City Social Club.


Nantlys - Woolley


Later the Bangor City Social Club

 
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Red Lion Pen Y Groes

1901 Red Lion Public House Penygroes also by Hall
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Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon

XD/39/181.  
1930 8ept.2   SPECIFICATION OF ALTERATION to Llanllechid Church Schools for the Rev. A.H. Grey-Edwards, the Vicarage, Llanllechid by Richard and Douglas Hall, F. & A.R.I.B.A., Architects, Bangor.

XD/39/182.
1930 Sept.3 LETTER: Richard and Douglas Hall, Architects, Nab. Prov. Bank Chambers, Bangor, to the Rev. A. H. Grey-Edwards, The Rectory, Halfway Bridge, Bangor. They inform him that in the absence of Mr. Morris Davies’ tender, nothing has been done concerning Llanllechid Church Schools. Mr. Richard Hall has sent the tenders to the Archdeacon. Attached: COPY LETTER (2 September 1930): Richard and Douglas Hall, Architects, Bangor, to the Venerable Archdeacon Evans, The Rectory, Llanfaethlu. They inform him of the tenders which have been opened and enclose plans and specifications concerning Llanllechid Church Schools.

XD/39/187.  
1936-1937   BUNDLE OF ITEMS (6) concerning alterations to Llanllechid Schools. LETTER (?3 March 1936): Richard and Douglas Hall, Architects, Nat. Prov. Bank Chambers, Bangor, to the Rev. Gwilym Davies, Llanllechid Rectory, He encloses a copy of a letter from the Board of Education. Enclosed: COPY LETTER (20 March 1936): H.A. Ferris, Welsh Department, Board of Education, Whitehall London, to Richard and Douglas Hall, Architects, Bangor. The proposed plans for alterations to Llanllechid C. of E. school have had approval of the Board of Education, but a few further suggestions have been made. He asks that the Board be informed as to the proposed improvements to the surface in the playground. On completion, the school will house 136 pupils. An architect’ s certificate of completion should be submitted to the board. LETTER: (17 October 1936): J. Elias Jones, Brentwood, Bangor, to the Rev. Gwilym Davies, Th. Rectory, Llanllechid. He refers to matters of removing the dividing wall between the playgrounds at Llanllechid C. of E. School where the opinion of H.M. Inspector must be sought. To merge the existing playgrounds would be more effective than to add an extension. A part of the wall may be left to screen the offices. This scheme has already successfully been adopted by the Caernarfonshire L.E.A. LETTER (8 October 1937): David Thomas, Education Offices, Caernarfon, to D.R. Llewelym, Gwynlys, Adwy’r Nant, Bethesda. He encloses a copy of a letter from the Board of Education. Enclosed: COPY LETTER (7 October 1937): H.A. Ferris, Welsh Department, Board of Education to the L.E.A., Education Offices, Caernarfon. Re confirms that the Architect’s certificate of completion having been received, Bethesda Llanllechid C. of E. School is now recognised by the Board as providing accommodation for 136 pupils. LETTER (4 November 1937): David Thomas, Education Offices, Caernarfon to the Rev. G. Davies, The Rectory, Halfway Bridge, Bangor. He encloses a letter from the County Architect. Enclosed: LETTER (2 November 1937): Westbury Lloyd Jones, Architect, County Offices, Caernarfon, to David Thomas, Director of Education. He approves the alterations to Llanllechid Non-Provided Schools but he makes recommendations as to improvements necessary in the playgrounds and the cloakrooms.

XD/39/188.
1937 Aug. 13 LETTER: Richard and Douglas Hall, Architects and Surveyors, Bangor, to the Rev. Gwilym Davies, Llanllechid Rectory Bangor. He refers to an account for additions to the Non-Provided Schools, Llanllechid. D.R. has also written to Mr. David Thomas and to Canon J.C. Jones. Enclosed: ACCOUNT of Douglas Hall, Architect, Bangor, for the sum of £1199.12.10 for additions to the Non-Provided Schools at Llanllechid.
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R Hall, Listed Under Architects in the Masonic Hall, High Street Bangor
Copes Directory 1912

http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hisso/cope1912/s2.htm
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Re: Castle Hotel, Bangor (demolished)

On sloping ground immediately to the S of the Cathedral. Origins date back to 1691 (although an earlier building is shown on Speed's 1610 map).  Rebuilt in later Georgian period when it was known as The Mitre.  After 1834 the hotel expanded and took over the adjoining building and heightened it; prior to this it had been the post Office and before that a printing works where John Broster printed the 1st edition of the North Wales Gazette ­ 5 January 1808.  The building was re­modelled in 1931 by Richard Hall, architect of Bangor
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Richard Hall, died on 19 April 1937 at the age of 72, he had practiced for 40 years in Bangor where he established a practice which extended throughout North Wales.

Mr Hall was a pupil of Thomas Bower, of Nantwich, Cheshire, but he went to Bangor in 1895 and began to practice on his own. He designed the large extention to St Marys Teacher Training College, Bangor, the new offices for the Alliance Assurance Co. and reconstruction of the Castle Hotel.

Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Volume 45
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