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John William Simpson

New buildings for Haileybury College (now called Haileybury and Imperial Service College)


Watkin's Tower

Among the pavilions and halls designed for the exhibition by John William Simpson, Maxwell Ayrton and Owen Williams was a grand sports arena, the 125,000-capacity British Empire Exhibition Stadium, later to be known as Wembley Stadium.


see also

Maxwell Ayrton

Wembley Stadium, Palace of Industry, and Palace of Engineering (1921–1923, all now demolished) for the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley (1924–1925) (with John William Simpson)