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Colonel Blink (a group admin) says:
29 Dec 07 - There is a longer list of "Skipper" Buildings in the discussions. Please add to it if you can. I would love to see photographs of the domestic houses he designed.
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Suffolk And Cambridge Buildings - An incomplete list Colonel Blink 3 62 months ago
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About George Skipper of Norwich

"He is altogether remarkable and original. He is to Norwich rather what Gaudi was to Barcelona"
John Betjeman. 1975.

This group is for photographs of buildings by the Norwich based architect George Skipper. Photographs of any of his buildings may be posted or details of any part of them. You may also post photographs of how his buildings are used today; no objections made to photographs of the interiors of shops or offices even if they show nothing of the original design. This group is not just for photographs of his Norwich buildings

The Major Norwich City Centre Building are
Skipper's Office, 7 London Street 1896
Additions and extensions to 9 & 11 London Street 1897
The Royal Arcade 1898 - 1899
The White Rose Public House1899
Norfolk Daily Standard offices, St Giles Street (now a tile shop) 1899-1900
Haymarket Chambers, Haymarket, Norwich 1901
Norwich Union Life Insurance Offices, Surrey Street, Norwich 1901-06
Commercial Chambers, Red Lion Street Norwich 1901 - 03
London & Provincial Bank Ltd, London Street 1902-? Now the Gap
Jarrold's Department Store, London and Exchange Streets, Norwich
Norwich And London Accident Assurance Association offices, 41-45 St Giles Street, Norwich (Later telephone House)

Other Notable Buildings include
Sennowe Park, Guist, Norfolk 1904-11 (The last large country house to be built in Norfolk)
Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club House Lowestoft 1902-3
Hotel De Paris, Cromer

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