Harold Ridley Hooper
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Harold Ridley Hooper (1886, Bury St Edmunds – 1953)[1][2] was an English architect based in Ipswich, Suffolk.
He was elected ARIBA in 1910, having been articled to John Shewell Corder,[1] and started his own practice in Ipswich in 1912. He was a Colonel in the 4th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment during World War I. He was later Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.
His buildings include:
- Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich (1911),[3][4]
- Butlins Skegness holiday camp (1936) and other designs for Butlins Ltd.
- Belstead House[5]
- Margaret Catchpole Public House, (1936)[6]
