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OAKDEN, Alfred Augustus
1861-1936
Architect and surveyor.
      Born in Cheltenham, son of bank clerk. He settled in Eastbourne in the late 1880s, where he joined a masonic lodge in 1887 but had an office in High Street, Lewes in 1889. He served in the army 1897-1902, the period of the second Boer War, as a captain in the 1st Sussex Regiment. In 1903 he was briefly in partnership with J W Hawker. He returned in Eastbourne, where he died, leaving £59,856 14s 8d.
Oakden & Hawker Architectural firm.
      Short-lived partnership in 1903-1904 of A A Oakden [qv above] and J W Hawker.
WORK
• 18 houses in Ashford Road [1903]
98-120 (even) Balfour Road [1903]
159-181 (odd) Osborne Road [1903]
• 2 houses in Beaconsfield Villas [1904]
OCKENDEN, Edmund Jury Snr
1810-1878
OCKENDEN, Edmund Jury Jr
1833-1906
Edmund Ockenden Sr. Stone mason, builder
      Stone mason (1841), builder employing 12 men (1851). Father of E J Ockenden.
Edmund Ockenden Jr. Builder.
      Brighton-born son of Edmund Ockenden, he was working as a mason (1851) from his parents' address. He progressed to being a builder employing nine men and four boys (1871), builder and brick-maker (1881). He retired by 1891 and in 1893 became one of the first councillors for Wish Ward when Aldrington was absorbed by Hove. He left £2,650.
WORK (Jr)
• 16 houses including 34-37 in Park Crescent Road (1870-1871)
6 Grand Avenue (c1880)

PERSONAL
12 Temple Street [family 1840-1868]
PERSONAL (Jr)
13 Station Road, Portslade [premises 1871-1906]
28-29 Brigden Street [1868-1875]
13 Church Road [1877-1882]
5-6 Upper Westbourne Villas [1883-1884]
7 Sackville Road [1885-1887]
3 Seafield Road [residence 1888-1889]
151 Clarence Square [residence 1890]
10 Westbourne Villas [residence 1891]
70 Walsingham Road [residence 1901]
OLLIVER, George
1826-1903
OLLIVER, John
1859-1919
George Olliver. Carpenter and builder.
      Born in Portsmouth. He had retired by 1901. His daughter Sarah was a missionary preacher.
John Olliver. Builder and contractor.
      Son of George Olliver. Partnership as Barber & Olliver (1895).
WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL (George)
2 Montpelier Road North [family 1851-1864]
24 Sydney Street [1881]
46 Warleigh Road [family 1881-1885]
57 Islingword Road [1888-1896]
21 Elder Place [residence 1898-1903]
PERSONAL (John)
44 Goldstone Road [1891-1895]
5 Pembroke Avenue [1902]
12 Richmond Terrace [1911]
46 Springfield Road[1919]
OLLIVER, H
Builder. WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
77 Goldstone Villas [1902]
OLLIVER, William
1845-
Builder.
      Born in Worthing, he was a bricklayer's labourer (1881).
WORK
Woodingdean open air swimming pool, Old Parish Lane (1904).

PERSONAL
33 St Paul's Street [1881]
Roedean Road [1897]
11 Normanton Street [1902-1907]
OVER, Thomas
1802-
Builder, bricklayer.
      Born at Headley, Hampshire. Settled in Brighton by 1830. In 1851 he employed 10 men and two boys.
WORK

COMMEMORATIVE
Over Street (c1849)
PERSONAL
18 Wood Street [1841-1843]
14 Sidney Street [1851]
OVERTON, William Henry FRIBA
1880-1946
Architect.
      In independent practice from 1903 but in partnership with Leslie Scott 1904-1908. FRIBA 1925.
WORK
• 4 houses on the east side of Bolsover Road (1909)
• 2 terraced houses, 4 detached houses and nine pairs of semi-detached houses in Wilbury Crescent (1909-1913)
• 18 pairs of semi-detached houses on the south side of Lyndhurst Road (1909)
• 2 houses on the north side of Lyndhurst Road (1910)
• detached house and 2 pairs of semi-detached houses on the west side of Silverdale Road (1910)
• house in Ditchling Road (1911)
12-14 Wilbury Crescent (1913)
• 2 houses at 368 Ditchling Road (1914 listed but doubtful)
• 2 houses in Dyke Road (1914)
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road (bathroom and lavatory, 1920; staff dining room, extension to nurses home and other additions, 1925)
9 Colebrook Road (1917,1921)

PRACTICE
22 Ship Street [1912-28]
Overton & Partners
Architectural firm. WORK
Brighton Spiritual Church, Edward Street (1965)
Overton & Scott
Architectural firm.
      Partnership of William H Overton [qv above] and Leslie Scott, active 1904-1908, principally in Hove and Aldrington.
• 4 pairs of semi-detached villas and 1 detached house on north side of New Church Road (1904)
• 2 detached houses and 10 pairs of semi-detached houses in Bigwood Villas (Avenue) (1904-1906)
• 9 detached houses and 1 pair semi-detached houses in New Church Road (1904, 1907)
• 2 pairs of semi-detached houses in Wilbury Avenue (1905)
• 10 pairs of semi-detached houses, 3 shops, 4 detached houses and 6 terraced houses in Wilbury Crescent (1905, 1908)
• 2 detached houses and 3 pairs of semi-detached houses in Wilbury Villas (1905-1906)
• 28 houses in Buller Road (1905)
• 4 pairs of semi-detached villas on north side of Cromwell Road (1906)
• 22 terraced houses on east side of Alpine Road (1906, 19 built)
• 10 houes and extention of road at west end of Lorna Road (1906)
• 2 houses in Dyke Road (1907)
• 12 houses in Balfour Road (1907)
• 21 terraced houses in Bolsover Road (1907)
12 terraced houses in Avondale Road (1907)
• 4 houses and 5 pairs of semi-detached houses on the west side of Avondale Road (1907-1908)
• 12 houses in Lyndhurst Road (1907-1908)
• 4 houses in Ryde Road (1908)
• 8 houses and shiops on south side and 1 house on north side of Payne Avenue (1906, 1908)
     

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