Archibald Pursglove
- Born: 17 July 1881 at 287 Broad Street, Pendleton, Salford
- Married: 17 July 1908 to Kate Lilian, second daughter of F H Smith of Didsbury, at St Paul’s Wesleyan Church, Didsbury, [Manchester Guardian 17 July 1908]
- Died: 7 June 1948 at Christie Hospital Manchester
- Funeral: 10 June 1948 at Manchester Crematorium
The son of William Pursglove, draper, and his wife Sarah, Archibald Pursglove was articled to E W Leeson (qv). He then worked variously as an assistant to Simpson and Duckworth (1899-1900); assistant to J W Taylor of Sheffield (1900); assistant to Joseph Holt (1901); assistant to F K Thompson of Bolton (1902-1903); assistant to J M Wilson and Son (1904-1906); assistant to FEW Harris, Co-operative Wholesale Society architects (1907-). He passed qualifying examination and was elected Associate of the RIBA on 2 March 1908, proposed by J H Woodhouse, Isaac Taylor and Paul Ogden. During the First World War he served as sapper in Royal Engineers. By 1931 he had established an office in Mosley Street Manchester, before moving to Oxford Street. His known works are all for the Bury Brewing Company. In 1930 he commenced practice as a chartered quantity surveyor at 79 Mosley Street, Manchester. [RIBA Journal 8 Feb 1930 page 248]
Address
1931-1935: A Pursglove ARIBA 79 Mosley Street Manchester
1936-1938: Archibald Pursglove ARIBA 16 Oxford Street, Manchester
Residence
1901: Gibsons Road, Heaton Norris
1908: Roseville, Frewland Avenue, Stockport
1911: Archibald Pursglove, ARIBA AMSA 27 Scarsdale Road, Victoria Park
1913: Archibald Pursglove, 10 Elmsmere Road, Fog Lane, Didsbury
1936: Archibald Pursglove, ARIBA AMSA PASI. 10 Elmsmere Road Didsbury
1936: Archibald Pursglove. 10 Elmsmere Road Didsbury
Reference: Who’s Who in Architecture 1914
Reference: RIBA Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z), edited Antonia Brodie p425