page_title: Hedley Adams Mobbs
hierarchical_section_title: Hedley Adams Mobbs
caption_attribution_description: English: Cammack's Wide Bargate, Boston. Art Deco frontage of 1931-32 by Hedley Adams Mobbs
context_page_description: Hedley Adams Mobbs was a British architect who worked in Boston, Lincolnshire. Apart from his work as an architect he was also worked as cartoonist for the satirical magazine Punch. He was also a crack rifleman who took part in competitions at Bisley, played football for Cambridge City, a ragtime pianist, beekeeper, horticulturalist and artist. In later life he invented a mechanism for dipping car headlights. He was also a leading philatelist writing standard works on the subject and advising on the formation of the Royal Stamp collection.
context_section_description: Hedley Adams Mobbs (1891-1970) was a British architect who worked in Boston, Lincolnshire. Apart from his work as an architect he was also worked as cartoonist for the satirical magazine Punch. He was also a crack rifleman who took part in competitions at Bisley, played football (left wing) for Cambridge City, a ragtime pianist, beekeeper, horticulturalist and artist. In later life he invented a mechanism for dipping car headlights. He was also a leading philatelist writing standard works on the subject and advising on the formation of the Royal Stamp collection.
caption: Cammack's Wide Bargate, Boston. Art Deco frontage of 1931-31 by Mobbs
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