London Oratory School Fulham SW6 - Project Management

The Arts Centre was inaugurated in 1991 by the Prime Minister John Major.

                                                                                                Steel Frame Construction

Sir Roger de Grey, President of the Royal Academy laying the stone overseen by Peter Gauld MD of Benson Ltd and John McIntosh Headmaster 1992.

The Arts Centre has a 340 seat theatre, with fly-tower, dressing rooms and orchestral pit, art studios and gallery space, a pottery, music teaching rooms, a recital area and practice rooms

     Ian with Marlee Robinson and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

                                                                                              Paolozzi's Athena

In the foyer there is a large bronze sculpture of Athena by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and major series of his original prints.  In December 2006 the Arts Centre was renamed the John McIntosh Arts Centre in honour of the recently retired Headmaster.

    Tiffin School Kingston Upon Thames - SSM

The original foundation dates from the endowment of John and Thomas Tiffin, merchants of Kingston, in 1638.   The School colours also date from that time and the three salmon in the School's crest are a reminder of the long association with Kingston.

The first Tiffin Boys' School opened on the Fairfield in January 1880, and the School moved to its present site, near to the centre of Kingston in 1929. In 1944 the school became a Grammar School and in 1993 changed from voluntary controlled to Grant Maintained. Latterly it has taken up the status of voluntary aided and from September 2003 has become a specialist Performing Arts College.

    HRH Prince Edward opening the Arts Centre at Tiffin Boys School

                                                                                            Kings College School Wimbledon - New Music School and Arts Centre

Kings College School was founded in 1829 in the Strand in London. Today the school educates 1,150 pupils combining academic excellence with a breadth of sporting and cultural activities including being one of the first UK schools to adopt the International Baccalaureate.

Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey - GCW1 Term Restoration and new exhibition rooms below the Wrens Collonaide

Henry VIII enlarged the palace, following receipt of same from Wolsey, five of his wives lived here, and Jane Seymour died here soon after giving birth to Edward VI. Mary I, Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I (who was also imprisoned here) used the palace; so did Oliver Cromwell and Charles II (who laid out the gardens more formally), but not James II. With the accession of William and Mary, Wren was asked to design a new palace. One of his plans involved the destruction of all the Tudor buildings except the Great Hall. Work began in 1689, but on Queen Mary's death complete rebuilding was abandoned. The interior was not completed until after William III's death.

                                                                                            Clock Court HCP

     Carpenters Court HCP

                                                                                            A typical Christopher Wren Stack HCP

     The Ann Boleyn Gate House - Astro-clock 1540

King Henry VIII commissioned Nicolas Kratzer (a Bavarian and friend of court painter Hans Holbein) to design an astronomical clock for his palace at Hampton Court, which was installed around 1540. The astronomer and ‘Devisor of the King’s Horologes’, working with French clockmaker Nicholas Oursian, created not only a marvel of Tudor engineering with complex mechanics, but also an enviable work of art. It also had great practical use showing the time, month, day of the month, position of the sun in the zodiac, the phase and age of the moon. It also determined the time at which the moon would cross the meridian and therefore the time of high water at London Bridge, useful if you, like King Henry, travelled to London by Royal Barge.

                                                                                             Base Court from the roof

Base Court at Hampton Court, completed for Cardinal Wolsey in 1520 was mainly grass, the legacy of a mistaken Victorian restoration. Research has shown that in the time of Henry VIII the courtyard had a cobbled surface, replaced around 1700 by paving; now Historic Royal Palaces wish to pave it in stone again, completing the project in time for the 500th anniversary of Henry’s coronation, in 2009.

                                                                                                         Osterley Park Mansion, Isleworth, Restoration Works

The original building on this site was a manor house built for banker Sir Thomas Gresham in the sixteenth century. It is known that Queen Elizabeth visited twice, on one occasion suggesting that a hedge would be a good idea in a certain location. It was built overnight! The stable block from this period remains at Osterley Park.

Two hundred years later the manor house was falling into disrepair, when it came into the ownership of Sir Francis Child, a goldsmith turned banker, as a result of a mortgage default. In 1761 he employed Robert Adam, who was just emerging as one of the most fashionable architects in England, to remodel the house. The house of red brick with white stone details and is approximately square, with turrets in the four corners. Adam's design, which incorporates some of the earlier structure, is highly unusual, and differs greatly in style from the original construction. One side is left almost open and is spanned by an ionic portico which is approached by a broad flight of steps and leads to a central courtyard, which is at piano nobile level.

The Stable block survives from the Gresham days and this was converted into tea rooms and Tapestry repair workshops for the V&A.

    The Garden House, Osterley - Restoration project

Kew Gardens - Renovation / Restoration to The Temperate House

Once the largest plant house in the world and now the world's largest surviving Victorian glass structure, the Temperate House is another of Decimus Burton's designs. At 4,880 square metres, it is the largest public glasshouse at Kew, twice the size of the Palm House.

Tender woody plants from the world's temperate regions have always been a major part of the collection at Kew. In Victorian times, the intensity of collecting meant that the Orangery and many other houses quickly became vastly overcrowded and the need for a large temperate greenhouse had become overwhelming.In 1859, the Government allocated £10,000 to build the Temperate House and directed Decimus Burton to prepare designs for this 'long-desiderated' conservatory. However, in 1863, the Treasury called a halt to building for budgetary reasons. However, the building was finally completed in 1898.

                                                 Preshaw House, Upham, Hampshire - Conversion of  the 'Big House' into 4 individual dwellings.

 Known only as Preshaw House, meaning 'the priests wood', believed to have been 'cleared' during the infamous enclosure period when in order to facilitate sheep farming in England, tenants were forced off their common lands and had to seek new homes and employment elsewhere. Many were promised lands in Ireland, and it is possible that the holders of this surname today in its many spellings, date from that period. The surname appears in the church registers recordings of Ireland in the reign of King William 111rd of Orange, the first possibly being that of James Prashaw of Clones, County Monaghan, on November 22nd 1693.

Preshaw is a classic English estate; 1200 acres (500ha) of parkland, woodland and arable fields with a fine Grade II* mansion and manor house at its centre, served by a range of barns, stables and cottages. The Preshaw House complex has been designated as a Conservation Area and is now in separate ownership from the Estate.

Walter Long was born on 24 November 1788, son of John Long and Ellen Hippesley Trenchard, He married Lady Mary Carnegie daughter of Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk and Mary Ricketts on 12th February 1810.  In 1797 He inherited the estate of Preshaw from his father. He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Hampshire, held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Hampshire, and held the office of High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1824.