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George Mathers (architect)
George Mathers (1919 – 11 October 2015) was an architect, most notable for the Grade II listed Marychurch in Old Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. He was also a conscientious objector jailed twice for his pacifist stance during the Second World War. Personal life George A.J. Mathers was born in 1919 in London. His father was a postal worker. In 1933 he went to the Northern Polytechnic to study bricklaying, joinery and plumbing. In 1936 after he had completed this course he started a five-year course with the polytechnic's Department of Architecture. During his time at the Northern Polytechnic he became a Roman Catholic and Pacifist. As a conscientious objector he was expelled from the polytechnic and imprisoned in HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, Wormwood Scrubs where he met Paul Mauger, a Quaker architect, who was a prison visitor and had been a conscientious objector in the First World War. Mauger offered him a job. However, Mathers was later jailed for a second time for Pacifism b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kings Cross, London
King's Cross is a district in the London boroughs, London Boroughs of London Borough of Camden, Camden and London Borough of Islington, Islington, on either side of Euston Road in north London, England, north of Charing Cross, bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell to the southeast, Angel, Islington, Angel to the east, Holborn and Bloomsbury to the south, Euston Railway Station, Euston to the west and Camden Town to the northwest. It is served by two major rail termini, St Pancras railway station, St Pancras and London King's Cross railway station, King's Cross. King's Cross station is the terminus of one of the major rail routes between London and the North. The area, which was historically the south-eastern part of the parish and borough of St Pancras, London, St Pancras, and once known for drug-dealing and prostitution, has undergone significant urban renewal, regeneration since the mid-1990s. The introduction of the Eurostar rail service at St Pancras railway stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
