Kemp & Tasker

Addington Road Health Centre, Addington Road in West Wickham, built by Kemp & Tasker

Leslie H Kemp and Frederick E Tasker were English architects who practiced in the 1930s as Kemp & Tasker.

They are best known for their cinemas, although they are responsible for a number of notable buildings in South London and Kent for a Messrs Morrell Bros. Builders [1] of 60 High Street, Bromley, Kent. These include:

In 1934 a Kemp and Tasker house design won the Daily Mail's Ideal House Competition and was erected temporarily at Olympia in the 'Village of Tomorrow' [2] at Ideal Home Show the following year. Morrell's glossy brochure [3] advertised that it could be built to order anywhere and three known examples exist:

Cinemas

References

  1. Hayes and Coney Hall walk notes, The Twentieth Century Society, 2007
  2. The Ideal Home Through the 20th Century, Deborah S Ryan, 1997
  3. Sales Brochure, held by Local Studies Library, Bromley, Kent
  4. Free State Architecture, Paul Larmour, Gandon Editions, 2009
  5. Cherry, Bridget; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005). The Buildings of England: London. 5. East. London, New Haven, [Conn.]: Yale University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780300107012. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. Fading Lights, Silver Screens, A History of Belfast Cinemas, Michael Open, p 71
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