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| William Alexander Harvey, 1905. |
William Alexander Harvey was born in 1874, and studied architecture under W. H. Bidlake at the Municipal School of Art on Margaret Street in Birmingham. Aged only 20, Harvey was asked by George Cadbury to begin designing houses for his model village, and he continued working on buildings in the Bournville area until 1929. Among his works were Bournville Infant and Junior Schools, Ruskin Hall, the Friends Meeting House, St. Francis Church, as well as almost all of the houses on the Bournville Tenants estate.*
Harvey was highly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, which can be seen in the Tenants houses.
Find out more about Harvey here.
NOTES
*Two blocks of two houses on Woodlands Park Road were not designed by Harvey, but David Glass, who was a surveyor and later secretary of Bournville Tenants, living at 4 Woodlands Park Road until the early to mid 1910s. Glass's father-in-law, George Tallis, was a bricklayer, so it is likely that he was involved the actual building work.
NB. 12, 14, 16 and 18 Hawthorne Road suffered bomb damage during World War I and were completely rebuilt in the late 1940s.
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