Henry Walter Simister
Henry Walter Simister LRIBA was a 20th-century architect based in Birmingham.
History
He was born in 1881 in Staffordshire, the son of John Simmister and Annie Harper.He was articled to John Harry Woodall Hickton and Henry Edward Farmer of Walsall in 1898. He attended Birmingham School of Art. He was assistant to Herbert Tudor Buckland and Edward Haywood-Farmer.
In 1910 he started in independent practice in Birmingham in partnership with Edward Garratt. In 1911 he was appointed as LRIBA.
In 1905 he married Alice Emily Hill. This marriage produced the following children:
- John Walter Simister
- Nellie Marjorie Simister
- Alice Elizabeth Simister
Works
- Council House, Coventry 1913-17
- Empress Theatre, The Strand, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 1921-22.
- Victory Memorial Wing, Lichfield Soldiers' Home, Whittington Heath 1927
- Birmingham [Blue Coat School] 1929-30
- Chapel, Blue Coat School, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1932
- Trinity [High School and Sixth Form Centre|Trinity High School], Redditch 1930-32
- House, 6 The Firs, Coventry 1934
- House, 30 Avenue Road, Stratford-upon-Avon 1934
- Swimming Baths, Bristol Road, Northfield, Birmingham 1937
- New Cinema, Rubery, Birmingham 1939