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A public lecture given by Bob Bray (Robert Bray Associates, Bristol Studio)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday 25th April 2023, 18:45 Room TC001 (FCH campus) University of Gloucestershire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOHN SIMPSON 1929-2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The John Simpson memorial lectures are held in honour of a former colleague and friend to the Cheltenham Landscape Architecture Course. In 1965 he was appointed to the Gloucestershire College of Art which was then located in the Pittville Pump Room and he brought his wide-ranging expertise in hydrology, construction and surveying skills to the students of Landscape Architecture as well as aspects of planning law. John eventually took on the role of running the Landscape course, effectively as Head of School for a short while, ensuring the four-year full-time course maintained its cohesion and necessary exemption from the intermediate examination of the Institute of Landscape Architects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Simpson retired in 1989 \u2013 the year that Her Majesty\u2019s Inspectorate awarded an \u2018excellent rating\u2019 on the Landscape course: a fitting conclusion to John\u2019s contribution through the years but arguably, most of all, John will be remembered for the important work of admissions tutor to the course. Over a quarter of a century he was individually responsible for the processing of hundreds of applications and interviews of prospective students. In no small measure was the course in debt to John for this essential but barely acknowledged non-computerised administrative task, and many students no doubt, if asked, would declare that their choice for Landscape Architecture in Cheltenham was influenced by John\u2019s warm and personal welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are extremely grateful to Catherine, John\u2019s daughter, who has generously agreed to sponsor the lectures allowing us to invite speakers expert in the combined fields of landscape architecture and civil engineering, John\u2019s original qualification. It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Bob Bray of the Robert Bray Partnership, Bristol and Stroud,  has accepted our invitation to give the talk this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John was much involved in the hydrological side of the profession, spending much time working on flood prevention and general restoration of the Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. There was always a quiet sense of satisfaction about John whenever the Flood Protection scheme proved resilient and much tutting as the rest of England disappeared, he thought entirely unnecessarily, under metres of flood water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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