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5 unusual facts about Edward Middleton Barry


Edward Middleton Barry

The Covent Garden work was hugely influential in Barry’s appointment to design the Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta (1866), bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

Birmingham and Midland Institute (1857, this later became Birmingham Reference Library but was demolished in the 1960s)

Foremost of these was the new Palace of Westminster, which was at length entrusted to him by the government; and Halifax Town Hall.

Among the projects jointly attributed to them are new chambers at Inner Temple, London (completed in 1879), and the design of the Great Eastern Hotel at London’s Liverpool Street station, completed in 1884, after Edward's death.

Listed buildings in Crewe Green

Following a fire in 1866, it was further restored by E. M. Barry.



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