Joe Collins

• Birth date      17 November 1848 at Oldham (baptismal record)
• Christening    9 February 1849 at St. Peter’s Church, Oldham (baptismal record)
• Marriage       19 August 1869 to Elizabeth Ann Goughrodger at Oldham
• Death date    1929

According to baptismal records, Joe Collins was born on 17 November 1848 at Oldham, the son of Joseph Collins, iron turner and his wife Harriet

John Wild set up his architectural practice at 15 Clegg Street, Oldham in 1856. The partnership comprised the founder, John Wild (1836-1901), Joe Collins (1848-1929), his long serving assistant who joined the partnership in 1876 and Frederick Wild, his son, who was admitted about 1890. Following the death of John Wild in 1901, the practice was dissolved, with Fred Wild operating under his own name