Hedley Adams Mobbs

Hedley Adams Mobbs (1891-1970) was a British architect who worked in Boston, Lincolnshire. Apart from his work as an architect he was also worked as cartoonist for the satirical magazine Punch. He was also a crack rifleman who took part in competitions at Bisley, played football (left wing) for Cambridge City, a ragtime pianist, beekeeper, horticulturalist and artist. In later life he invented a mechanism for dipping car headlights.[1] He was also a leading philatelist writing standard works on the subject and advising on the formation of the Royal Stamp collection.[2]

Hedley Adams Mobbs
Cammack's Wide Bargate, Boston. Art Deco frontage of 1931-31 by Mobbs
Born7 January 1891
Died10 October 1970
Sleaford
NationalityEnglish
OccupationArchitect

Career

Mobbs was born at Oulton near Lowestoft. He was articled to an architect and surveyor in Great Yarmouth. He was probably the brother of Sydney Wilfred Mobbs, a Lowestoft architect.[3] Hedley Adams Mobbs served in the Royal Flying Corp during the First World War.[4] In 1917 he married Lily Marsden. He probably moved to Boston after the First World War, where his office was at 16a Wide Bargate. In 1939 he convened a committee in Boston to receive Czech Jewish Kindertransport children. In retirement he moved to Sleaford and was buried in Quarrington churchyard.[5]

Works
  • Cammack's Furniture Store, Wide Bargate, Boston. A building in the Art Deco style.
  • Clarks Shoes Strait Bargate, Boston. Rebuilt shop.
  • Zion Methodist Church, Brothertoft Road, Boston (1934). Chapel in a modernist style in red brick with bowed facade with tall windows.
  • Boston Central Park (1932). Gates and adjacent pavilions
  • Sandy Lane Methodist Chapel, near New York, Lincolnshire. Now converted into a house.

Literature
  • Antonia Brodie (ed), Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, Vol 2, pg. 194.
  • Minnis J., Carmichael K. & Fletcher C. (2015) Boston, Lincolnshire: Historic North Sea Port and Market Town, English Heritage, ISBN 9781848022706

References
  1. "Minnis et al." pg 71-2
  2. David Horry The Unissued Stamps of King George VI Murray Payne Ltd -references to Sir Burton Pedwardine and Sir Ewerby Thorpe as Curators of the Royal Collection are fictitious, taken from Lincolnshire village names
  3. "Brodie", pg 194
  4. "Hedley Adams Mobbs - WW1 Memorial and Life Story". livesofthefirstworldwar.org. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  5. https://www.curiousfox.com/vill100/LincolnshireSmallerVillages_6.html
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