WILSON, HARRY #

Architect of Leeds, Yorkshire, and company architect of Montague Burton, 'the Tailor of Taste', during the 1920s amd 1930s.  Harry Wilson was responsible for the conversion of Barnardo's shop at 21-22 Grafton Street into a Burton's branch circa 1926-1927 and for the design of Burton's large new premises on the corner of Dame Street and South Great George's Street, built between 1928 and 1930.   He also designed a branch of Burton's in Belfast, built in 1933 on the corner of Ann Street and Telfair Street.

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Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 021-22 (MONTAGUE BURTON)
Date:	1928
Nature:	Alterations and additions to for premises of J.M. Barnardo for Montague Burton. Shopfitter: Sage & Co. Plans passed by City Architect, May 1928.
Refs:	Design for ceiling signed by HW and Sage & Co. in IAA, Acc. 2001/22;  Irish Times, 17 May 1928, 'Plans for bulding works in Dublin';  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 520.

Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAME STREET, NO. 019-22 (MONTAGUE BURTON)
Date:	1929-1930
Nature:	New premises on corner of North Great George's Street.  Plans approved by City Architect, May 1929.  In process of construction, Dec 1929. Contractors: J. & P. Good.
Refs:	Irish Times, 16 May 1929, 16,18 Dec 1929 (account of death of John Dennis after fall from scaffolding);  www.archiseek.com;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 415, Pl. 92.

Building:	CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ANN STREET, NO. 025-27 (MONTAGUE BURTON)
Date:	1933
Nature:	New faience-clad Art Deco premises on corner of Telfair Street.
Refs:	Joseph McBrinn, 'Belfast's forgotten Art-Deco', Perspective, May 2010, 88-89(illus.).