Leslie Gooday

June 14, 1921 (age 91)

Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, United Kingdom

Elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951, he assisted Hugh Casson in designing the boating-pool and leisure area at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London"s South Bank. He designed, in 1961, the Grade II listed Richmond Baths, now known as Pools on the Park, a swimming pool and leisure facility in Old Deer Park in Richmond, London. His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey, Surrey, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970. In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road, Ham, London which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties". He also designed houses in other parts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and East Sussex. The Bosphorus House in Kippington Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, that he designed in the 1960s, was described in the local volume of The Buildings of England in 1983 as "ingenious". He died on 16 March 2013. 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London Longwall (built 1964-1966) Street George"s Hill, Weybridge, Surrey – described in its statutory listing in the initial (Grade II) category as "perhaps his most successful work".

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Gooday was born in the former Croydon registration district of Surrey on 14 June 1921.

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Elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951, he assisted Hugh Casson in designing the boating-pool and leisure area at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London"s South Bank. He designed, in 1961, the Grade II listed Richmond Baths, now known as Pools on the Park, a swimming pool and leisure facility in Old Deer Park in Richmond, London. His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey, Surrey, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970.

In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road, Ham, London which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties".

He also designed houses in other parts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and East Sussex. The Bosphorus House in Kippington Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, that he designed in the 1960s, was described in the local volume of The Buildings of England in 1983 as "ingenious".

He died on 16 March 2013. 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London

Longwall (built 1964-1966) Street George"s Hill, Weybridge, Surrey – described in its statutory listing in the initial (Grade II) category as "perhaps his most successful work".

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Completed in 1966, it received a Civic Trust award in 1967 and is recognised by Historic England as illustrating "the more ambitious use of glazed curtain walling and the post-Wolfenden Report emphasis on providing large banks of spectator seating".

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire Civic Trust award