Leslie Gooday

Gooday was born in the former Croydon registration district of Surrey on 14 June 1921.^[1] Elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951,^[2] he assisted Hugh Casson in designing the boating-pool and leisure area at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.^[3]

He designed, in 1961,^[4] the Grade II listed^[5] Richmond Baths, now known as Pools on the Park, a swimming pool and leisure facility in Old Deer Park in Richmond, London. Completed in 1966,^[6][7] it received a Civic Trust award in 1967^[5][8] and is recognised by Historic England as illustrating "the more ambitious use of glazed curtain walling and the post-Wolfenden Report^{[nb 1]} emphasis on providing large banks of spectator seating".^[9]

His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey,^[2][10] Surrey, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970.^[11]

In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road,^[12] Ham, London^[13] which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties".^[14] He also designed houses in other parts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and East Sussex.^[15] The Bosphorus House in Kippington Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, that he designed in the 1960s, was described in the local volume of The Buildings of England in 1983 as "ingenious".^[16][17] He made alterations to the Latter-day Saint church building in Balham, London, in 1979–80.^[18]

He died on 16 March 2013.^[3][19]

Gooday designed the two homes in which he lived successively with his wife Rosemary and children:^[19][20]

• 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London
• Longwall (built 1964–66) St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey – described in its statutory listing in the initial (Grade II) category as "perhaps his most successful work".^[21][22]