Charles Jones (Architect) Paperback

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Jones was Ealing's first architect, engineer and surveyor. He held these posts for fifty years. He is admired to this day, by both local residents and visitors, for his pleasing, well proportioned and functional civic buildings. He first started working for the Council on a commission only basis in 1863 until he was given a salaried post in 1882, which he held until he retired in 1913, shortly before his death the same year. His most prominent work is that of Ealing Town Hall. Before building could go ahead, Jones also had to find the land and negotiate the purchase. In 1885 he finally persuaded Edward Wood to sell his whole meadow which lay between the Uxbridge Road and the Great Western Railway cutting and alongside the very old road of Longfield Avenue. Being on such a busy thoroughfare, next to the new town centre and so close to both of Ealing's railway stations it was very much a prime site