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1905-1990
E R Corby (1905-1990) was an architectural student from the late 1930's of the Regent Street Polytechnic. Several drawings attributed to Corby are stamped Riley and Glanfield Chartered Architects, 6 Raymond Buildings, Grays Inn, WC1., suggesting that he was employed at this firm in the late 1930s-1950s. Further information provided by the donor indicates that Corby was also employed by Giles Gilbert Scott and produced drawings for him of Coventry and Liverpool Cathedrals and the Houses of Parliament during its restoration in 1945/6.
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Bill Jackson received his BSc (Eng) from Regent Street Polytechnic in 1951. He moved with his civil engineering career a great deal, spending 5 years in Nigeria 1955-60 and 2 years in Northern Ireland 1967-69. Bill was engineer in charge of the construction of the Cookstown Cement Works, later bombed by the IRA. In 1975/6 Bill was in charge of part of the M4/M5 motorway junction at Almondsbury, Bristol. Bill hadjoined Sir Lyndsey Parkinson & Co. in 1960. In 1982 the company was taken over by AMEC and soon after Bill retired to run a small hotel with his wife in Bournemouth which they did for the next 24 years. Bill died aged 80 in 2008.
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24 Aug 1892-30 Mar 1962
Bernard Studd was the youngest son of Sir Kynaston Studd and was Chairman of the Polytechnic Board of Governors from 1950 until his death in 1962.
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