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George Grenfell Baines
English architect and town planner (1908-2003) · United Kingdom · On the map · Architects · Died at 95
Sir George Grenfell-Baines was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, his family's relatively humble circumstances - his father was a railway clerk - forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger brother, Richard (Dick), were gifted mathematicians and draughtsmen.
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Grenfell-Baines left a secure, but limiting, job in the Lancashire County Architect's Office to work for the prestigious private firm of Bradshaw Gass & Hope in Bolton in 1930.
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