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The villas and town houses of Joseph Pickford of Derby (1736-82)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2016
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Joseph Pickford was probably the first London-trained architect to establish a practice in the East Midlands. He moved up to Derby about 1760, when he is first recorded working on the building of Foremark Hall, as an agent for the architect, David Hiorne of Warwick.1 He quickly established himself in the area and two years later married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Wilkins, the principal agent of Wenman Coke of Longford Hall.
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- Section 4: Architecture and its Organization in the Provinces
- Information
- Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 308 - 319
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- Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984
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23 Ibid., 23january 1768.
24 Ibid., 3 March 1768.
25 Ibid., 28 April 1772.
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