Harry S. Fairhurst

Harry S. Fairhurst was a prominent architect in Edwardian Manchester. He was responsible for many of the citys iconic warehouses and his commissions include Blackfriars House, headquarters of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation and Arkwright House, headquarters of the English Sewing Cotton Company.

Harry Smith Fairhurst was born in Blackburn onApril 1868. He commenced articles in 1883 with James Wolstenholme and improved with Maxwell and Tuke. He moved to Cardiff where he worked as assistant to William Frame. He qualified in 1891 and started his own practice in Blackburn in 1895. He moved to Manchester in 1901 where he worked in partnership with James Harold France until 1905. From 1905 his assistant was James Alexander Mitchell Hunter who became his partner in 1908. The practices first commissions were warehouses for Lloyds Packing Company.

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