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I am looking for details of possible buildings that were built by or information regarding the company of G H Carter Ltd.
I checked with Companies House and because the company was dissolved so long ago they don't have any records.
Company was based in Kentish Town, London although built properties in Whitstable, Kent.
Can anyone help?
Kind regards
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From Google:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire
1 court. No longer playable in 1976. Janet Morris, Assistant Archivist, reports in June 2002 that the building which was the fives court does still exist but is now used only as a squash court. According to the College Magazine for 1932-33 'Three courts are being built, for Eton Fives, Rugby Fives and Squash Rackets... designed by A.E. Munby, MA, FRIBA... the work is being carried out by a specialist firm, Messrs. G.H. Carter Ltd., Clissold Works, London.' The old Eton Fives court was demolished to make room for the new building.
Information provided by Chris Little June 2002.
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No. 8. Upper Grosvenor Street, London
Although never rebuilt in its entirety, No. 8 was comprehensively recast in 1927–8, and apart from two late eighteenth-century marble chimneypieces which may not in any case have been in the house before 1927, virtually all earlier features have been obliterated. The original house was erected under a lease of 1730 to the carpenter Robert Scott. (ref. 27) (This was a lease back to Scott of part of a plot leased to him in 1728 which he had recently assigned away.) It was first occupied in 1732. (ref. 25) The house had the usual three-storey brick front with garrets, the latter being replaced by a fourth storey, probably in 1873. (ref. 28) In the remodelling of 1927–8 a fifth storey was added and the house refronted in Portland stone. The architects for this work were J. Edwin Forbes and J. Duncan Tate (on behalf of the incoming occupant, the Hon. John Nivison), but the design for the new front (Plate 60b) was supplied by Sir Edwin Lutyens. He was acting as architectural adviser to the Estate, and may have been called in by his friend Detmar Blow, the estate surveyor, who was then living next door at No. 9. Lutyens was paid only £52 10s., and his work here was not publicized. The front is a largely unadorned skin of Portland stone discreetly modelled on the ground and top storeys, not quite orthodox in the height of the window openings or the proportions of the eighteenth-century-style pedimented porch in the manner of his No. 7 St. James's Square (1911). The builder was G. H. Carter Limited. (ref. 29)
Occupants include: Joshua Mauger, Nova Scotia merchant and distiller, later M.P., 1763–7. James Evan Baillie, son of West India merchant, sometime M.P., 1822–6. Spencer Kilderbee, who in 1832 took the name of De Horsey, M.P., 1830–58. Sir Henry-Mervin Vavasour, 3rd bt., 1881–92. John Nivison, latterly 2nd Baron Glendyne, 1928–36.
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