Harry Moss

• Birth date            April-June 1878
• Marriage              3 September 1914 to Christina Silver (Chrissie) Beaton at Bradford Presbyterian Church
• Death date          12 February 1925 at Bolton

Harry Moss, who was born at Moss Side, Manchester in 1879, the third son of John James Moss, insurance clerk,  and his wife Sarah. He served his articles with Frederick Whittaker Dixon, of Manchester and Oldham between 1896 and 1901. During his pupilage he won several prizes, notably the Manchester Society of Architects’ prize for measured drawings and the Building News prize for sketches made on the Continent. After remaining with F W. Dixon as assistant for two years, in 1903, he obtained employment with Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton, in whose office he remained until 1906, taking an active part in the design of some important buildings. He passed the qualifying examination in 1906 and was elected Associate of the RIBA on 3 December 1906, proposed by J J Bradshaw. J B Gass. and John Wynne.  From Bolton Harry Moss moved to Bradford, where he acted for several years as chief assistant to the City Architect. Later he was appointed housing architect to the Pontardawe District Council, Swansea, where he designed and carried out several extensive housing schemes, the lay-outs of which were difficult owing to the hilly nature of the sites. After completing the housing schemes at Pontardawe, Harry. Moss returned to his former employers at Bolton, when he was stricken with a serious illness from which he never recovered.

During his professional career Harry Moss won several competitions, the most important being the Llandrindod Wells Pump Room and Concert Hall Competition, the building being erected in accordance with his designs.

On 3 September 1914 he married Christina Silver Beaton the youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Beaton of Broughty Ferry Dundee at Bradford Presbyterian Church.

Residence
1881    Buckingham Street, Moss Side, Manchester
1891    Bristol Street Hulme
1901    Park Road Whalley Range
1906     52 Manley Road, Whalley Range, Manchester
1911-1913 65 Victoria Road, Whalley Range, Manchester (RIBA Kalendar)
1911    Bradford - boarder
1915    13 Hartman Place, Toller Lane, Bradford
1919    “Dolgarry” Coed Coe, Pontardawe, Glamorgan.
1922    108 Ribblesdale Terrace Victory Street, Chorley Old Road Bolton
1924    4 Iona Place, Tonge Moor, Bolton


Obituary        RIBA Journal v32 7 March 1925 Page 296-297
Reference    Who's who in architecture (1914, 1923)