Tuesday 10 October 2017

John Lewis Womersley (1910-1990)

The other day I came across an old newspaper cutting from the Sheffield Telegraph that announced the death of John Lewis Womersley at the age of 80. As far as Sheffield is concerned John's claim to fame is that he was City Architect J. L. Womersley was City Architect from 1953 - 1963 and led the team that planned and designed the mixed high-density housing developments, Park Hill (1957-1961) and the Gleadless Valley estate (1955-1962). He was also involved in the building of the recently demolished Castle Market and a number of schools and colleges that have also received recent visits from demolition crews. 

Apologies for the quality of the cutting



I was going to post a fuller article on John but decided that there was plenty of information and "opinion" on his life and career on-line. There is an extract in the Yorkshire Film Archive on Park Hill that is worth watching


4 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for posting this, I am in Sheffield this weekend checking out the work at Park Hill - I am JLW's grand daughter

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  2. Amazing to see something so recently posted about him and I had never seen this article. Thanks again!

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  3. A new post on John appears on
    https://ceegee-viewfromahill.blogspot.com/2018/12/john-womersleys-house-on-bents-drive.html

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