Owen Williams

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Owen Williams

Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was born in Tottenham

Tottenham

Tottenham is an urban area of North London, England in the London Borough of Haringey, situated north-east of Charing Cross....
, London

London

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, England

England

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, son of Owen Tudor Williams and Mary Roberts, and died in hospital in Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom with a population of 81,143 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 . Developed after World War II as a new town, it has existed as a settlement since the 8th century....
. He studied engineering at the University of London

University of London

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, after which he was articled to the Electrical Tramways Co. in London. In 1912 Williams assumed a position as engineer and designer with the Trussed Concrete Company. Seven years later, he started his own consulting firm, Williams Concrete Structures.

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Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was born in Tottenham

Tottenham

Tottenham is an urban area of North London, England in the London Borough of Haringey, situated north-east of Charing Cross....
, London

London

England

Hemel Hempstead

University of London

British Empire Exhibition

The British Empire Exhibition was a colonial exhibition held at Wembley, Middlesex in 1924 and 1925.It was opened by King George V of the United Kingdom on St George?s Day, 23 April....
(including the old Wembley Stadium) in 1923, he received a knighthood for his services in 1924. Through the exhibition, Williams came into an association with its architect, Maxwell Ayrton

Maxwell Ayrton

Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton Royal Institute of British Architects , known as Maxwell Ayrton, was a Scotland architect. He spent most of his adult life working in London and designed houses, public buildings, and bridges....
, which led to their working together on the design of Williams's bridges in Scotland.

Williams designed his buildings as functional structures sheathed with decorative facades. More an engineer than an architect, Williams produced a series of reinforced concrete buildings during the period between the wars. After World War II he worked on developing the first plan for Britain's motorway system.

In the 1940s the company expanded and became Sir Owen Williams and Partners.

His other works include the Dorchester Hotel

Dorchester Hotel

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, the Boots

Boots

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pharmaceutical factory in Beeston, Nottinghamshire

Beeston, Nottinghamshire

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, the Daily Express

Daily Express

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Buildings in London and Manchester, the M1 Motorway

M1 motorway

The M1 is a major north?south motorway in England primarily connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1 road near Aberford. While the M1 is considered to be the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, the first road to be built to motorway standard in the country was the Preston Bypass route, which later bec...
.

His nephew is quoted as saying "Just fancy Taid taking all that time over the trip to Barnet, when 60 years later his Grandson was head of Civil Engineering for the M1 ....."

Owen Williams

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