Charles Brooking

Onwards and upwards,

the forming of the

Charles Brooking Trust in 1985

Charles Brooking is a fascinating and knowledgeable collector of architectural detail, The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail, and as a Chartered Surveyor we find his lifelong quest to collect British building details unique, informative and valuable and a collection that must be kept intact for years to come. If you need help and advice with regard to building surveys, structural surveys, structural reports, engineers reports, specific defects report, dilapidations or any other property matters please free phone 0800 298 5424.

The following is one of a series of interviews with Charles Brooking, Historic and Listed Buildings Detail Expert, The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail and a Chartered Surveyor where we have recorded his comments and various aspects that have affected windows and doors and other collectibles. The interviews outline how his collection started and built over the years and gives an insight into the amazing architectural features housed in his fine collection.

Chartered Surveyor: Was your next step was to form the Charles Brooking Trust?

Charles Brooking : Yes, after that I met some quite influential people like Colin Amery, Sir William McAlpine and Gavin Stamp and Dan Cruickshank (who I had known for some time) and my father suggested that we formed a trust to safeguard the collection and find a home for it. A trust was formed duly by him, and paid for by him I might add, to secure a home and a future for all the rescued architectural detail items. The Trust was formed in 1985 with Gavin Stamp, Dan Cruickshank, Colin Amery, the architect Terry Farrell, Ashley Barker, from the GLC and of course my father. We had trustees meetings in Terry Farrell's office, which was amazing because we used to meet to see all the things like schemes for Charing Cross Station, all the rest of it. It was absolutely fascinating and he was very supportive. We met John George of the Building Centre eventually!

Rescue defined

Charles Brooking defines a rescue as saving a window or door or staircase that would be doomed.

Charles Brooking was a pioneer in the rescue of architectural detailing as many years ago it was very much considered a strange and an unusual past time to want to rescue old parts of buildings with everything new and shiny being so important.

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References:

TheBrookingCollection.com DartfordArchive.org.uk IHBC.org.uk ProjectBook.co.uk

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