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...Acton Town

...Designed by Charles Holden

...Born in 1875, Charles Henry Holden faced a testing childhood. His father went bankrupt and the boy's mother died when he was just eight years old. Working first as a railway store clerk and then as a chemical laboratory assistant before being articled to EW Leeson, a Manchester architect, he went on to become a star pupil at Manchester School of Art. His career took off. Jonathan Glancey, Guardian