Charles Herbert Aslin

Charles Herbert Aslin CBE (15 December 1893 – 18 April 1959) was a British architect.

He was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield, the son of steelworker Arthur William and Louisa Aslin and educated at Sheffield Central School and Sheffield University. During the First World War he served in the Army Pay Corps and the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry before being made a captain in the Royal Artillery.

After the war he was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) as an associate, becoming a fellow in 1932. He took a post in the city architect's department in Sheffield, and in 1922 was appointed as borough engineer in Rotherham, where he designed the new municipal offices. After a few years as a lecturer at Sheffield University he became an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was appointed deputy county architect of Hampshire.

In 1945, he was elected to the council of R.I.B.A. and elected president for 1954–56. He retired in 1958 and died in Hertford in 1959. He had married Ethel Fawcett Armitage, with whom he had one daughter.

Works Exeter Bridge, Derby (1931) Derby Bus Station (1933, closed 2005, demolished 2006) Derby Magistrates Court and Police Station (now known as the Riverside Chambers, and used as the Local Studies Library, as well as providing office space) Derby Council House Exeter House, Derby Queen Street Swimming Baths, Derby

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