Kenton Bar Estate - A Blast from the Past

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Rutter Carroll - Architect Picture and Text plagiarized and paraphrased from http://www.ruttercarroll.com      You can get a copy of Rutter’s excellent book on Amazon Amazon.com Widgets     Rutter Carroll was born and educated in the North east of England. He worked for Ove Arup before deciding on a career in architecture. Rutter gained a first class honours degree at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, spending a number of years in practice before taking up a career in academia   He has taught at the Universities of Leeds, Northumbria, Huddersfield and Birmingham, writing a number of articles on post war architecture, reinforced concrete and structural engineering many of which have been published in learned journals   Rutter completed a Masters Degree at the University of York on the work of Ryder and Yates which led to his meeting Gordon Ryder in 1984 and marking the beginning of an association that lasted until Gordon's death in 2000   Since then he has cont

Picture and text courtesy of Jolyon and Sally Ann Yates and lifted from http://www.peteryates.co.uk/ Peter Yates   19 July 1920 – 16 November 1982, was a British born artist and architect. He was a founder partner (alongside Gordon Ryder) of the architectural company Ryder and Yates, based in the North East of England. Early life and education Peter Yates was born in Leytonstone, East London in 1920. In 1925, at the age of five, he won a painting competition in Chicks' Own. He attended Wanstead School from September 1934 to July 1936 and painted a mural at the school called  'Events at Sea'. In 1937 he worked as a model and furniture maker. Model bungalows he built were shown at the April 1937 Ideal Home Exhibition. From January 1938 until April 1941, Peter attended the Regent Street Polytechnic, studying architecture under Sir Hubert Bennett and Peter Moro. World War Two Peter Yates served as a volunteer fireman on the St Paul's Watch during the London Blitz