About George Noel Hill
Lived 1893 – 1985 (aged 91–92). George Noel Hill was a British architect.
George Noel Hill FRIBA, MTPI (1893–1985) was a British architect. He served as City Architect of Manchester and later as Lancashire County Architect.
Hill was born in Wallasey, Merseyside, and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man. He then proceeded to the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. In 1926 he was appointed senior assistant in the Liverpool City Architect's Department. From 1928 to 1932, he worked as chief architectural assistant in the Leicester Corporation Surveyor's Department. While in Leicester, he designed the Leicester City Police Headquarters (with A. T. Gooseman) and additions to Leicester Town Hall, including a council chamber and a suite for the Lord Mayor of the city. In this role, he designed the Broadway Baths (1932) in New Moston and a new Manchester City Police Headquarters in Bootle Street (1933–37), and the Grade II*-listed Wythenshawe Bus Garage (1939–42), which employed a novel concrete shell. As Manchester City Architect, he also contributed to the new Manchester Central Library (opened 1934) and the Town Hall Extension (opened 1938), both designed by Vincent Harris. now part of Manchester Airport.
In June 1945, Hill was appointed Lancashire County Architect, a post from which he retired in 1958. In Manchester, he was succeeded as City Architect by Leonard Cecil Howitt.
Hill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
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British architect
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George Noel Hill was born in 1893 in Wallasey.
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