Leslie Gooday Explained

Leslie Gooday
Nationality:British
Birth Date:1921 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Croydon
Practice:Leslie Gooday & Associates
Significant Buildings:Pools on the Park, Richmond, London; Longwall, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey (both Grade II listed)
Awards:Order of the British Empire

Leslie Gooday OBE (1921–2013) was a British architect.

Biography

Gooday was born in the former Croydon registration district of Surrey on 14 June 1921.[1] 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.[2]

He designed, in 1961,[3] 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. Completed in 1966,[4] [5] it received a Civic Trust award in 1967[6] and is recognised by Historic England as illustrating "the more ambitious use of glazed curtain walling and the post-Wolfenden Report[7] emphasis on providing large banks of spectator seating".[8]

His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey,[9] [10] Surrey, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970.[11]

In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road,[12] Ham, London[13] which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties".[14] He also designed houses in other parts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and East Sussex.[15] 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".[16] [17] He made alterations to the Latter-day Saint church building in Balham, London, in 1979–80.[18]

He died on 16 March 2013.[2] [19]

Personal homes

Gooday designed the two homes in which he lived successively with his wife Rosemary and children:[19] [20]

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Leslie Gooday . Toby Walker . 1 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Shot Tower, boating-pool and riverside pavilions, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London . . Gallery . 28 January 2014.
  3. Cherry and Pevsner, p.93
  4. Cherry and Pevsner, p.520
  5. Web site: The Old Deer Park, Richmond – A Framework for Conservation and Development . Friends of Richmond Green and others . June 2012 . 18 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131019150749/http://www.forg.org.uk/publications/The%20Old%20Deer%20Park,%20June,%202012_opt.pdf . 19 October 2013 . dead .
  6. Web site: 28.14 Pools on the Park . . Played in London: a directory of historic sporting assets in London . 2015 . 11 August 2015 . Played in Britain . 139 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305022904/http://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/played-in-london-directory-sporting-assets-london/DirectoryofHistoricSportingAssetsinLondon.pdf/ . 5 March 2016 . dead .
  7. The Wolfenden Report referred to in this instance is that of the Committee on Sport & the Community, chaired by John Wolfenden, whose report, commissioned by the Central Council of Physical Recreation, reported in 1960. Web site: Sport & the Community: the report of the Wolfenden committee on Sport 1960 . Sports Development . 2 September 2012 . 17 October 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131019051818/http://www.sportdevelopment.info/index.php/subjects/60-ccpr-a-national-governing-bodies/251-sport-a-the-community-the-report-of-the-wolfenden-committee-on-sport-1960 . 19 October 2013 . dmy-all .
  8. Web site: Sports and Recreation Buildings . . Designating Heritage Assets . December 2012 . 11 May 2015 . 7.
  9. In Memoriam . RIBA Journal . 1 June 2013. 1 April 2021. Gooday's death is listed at the end of the article.
  10. Web site: Leslie Gooday & Associates . Find Kingston . 28 January 2014.
  11. Designers for the Japan world fair. Design Journal . 1967 . 231 . 23.
  12. Web site: Building 8692 . Cambridge 2000 . UK House Database . 28 January 2014 . Martin, Hugh . Anderson, Dave.
  13. Cherry and Pevsner, p.476
  14. Cherry and Pevsner, p.92
  15. Web site: Leslie Gooday & Associates . Cambridge 2000 . UK House Database . 28 January 2014 . Martin, Hugh . Anderson, Dave.
  16. Web site: Building 581. Cambridge 2000 . UK House Database . 28 January 2014 . Martin, Hugh . Anderson, Dave.
  17. Book: The Buildings of England – North East and East Kent . . Newman, John . 1983. Third . 121 . 0-14-071039-6.
  18. Cherry and Pevsner, p.664
  19. News: Leslie Gooday O.B.E. . . March 2013 . 28 January 2014 . Gooday, Max.
  20. Book: Architect's house, 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London: the entrance patio . 21 January 2021. RIBA.
  21. Book: The Buildings of England – Surrey . . . 1971. Second . London . 520 . 0-300-096-75-5.

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