Albert Nelson Bromley
Albert Nelson Bromley (15 July 1850 – 16 August 1934) was an English architect based in Nottingham. History. He was born in Stafford on 15 July 1850, the son of Charles Nelson Bromley, a surgeon (1817–1853) and Emma Bakewell (1819–1907). His father died two years later and the family moved to Nottingham, where they lived with Bromley's maternal uncle, the architect and surveyor Frederick Bakewell. Bromley was educated in Nottingham, and then at Mr George Shipley's academy, a boarding school in Lincoln. In 1867 he was articled to his uncle but by 1871 he was back  in Lincoln and working as an "architect's clerk" in Henry Goddard's architectural practice. Then from 1872 he spent the next 14 months travelling in Greece, Turkey and the United States. He returned to London and 1874 was working in the office of Charles Barry, junior. He then returned to Nottingham and 1875 he was taken into partnership with his uncle. Within two years Bakewell went into retirement. In 1886 he was elected FRIBA. He became principal architect to the Nottingham School Board and undertook several projects for the Nottingham and District Tramways Company. He was also architect to  the National Telephone Company. In 1897 he was in partnership with Thomas Herbert Waumsley, and from 1912 with Harry Garnham Watkins as Bromley and Watkins. In 1904 Thomas Cecil Howitt, the future architect of the Council House and Council housing, joined Bromley's office as an apprentice, and from 1907 was his assistant. In 1928 Harry Garnham Watkins left the partnership and Thomas Nelson Cartwight (1905-1984) joined, and Bromley, Cartwright and Waumsley were architects to Boots the Chemist. (Nelson later the partnership in 1948 at set up with John Woollatt as Evans, Cartwright and Woollatt.) He married Elizabeth Skepper  Brogden (1853–1940) on 11 April 1878 in St Swithin's Church, Lincoln and they had one daughter, Kathleen Christiana Bromley (1879–1967). He died on 16 August 1934 at 15 Newcastle Drive, Nottingham and left an estate of £63,359 14s. 2d. ().