Walter Lilly | 100 Years of Excellence

The strength of Walter Lilly is in its people. This book is dedicated to the Lilly family, our team, clients, consultants, subcontractors and suppliers, both past and present, who have made Walter Lilly what it is today.

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INTRODUCTION

Foundation stories for companies with long histories are typically a mix of myth and legend passed down through the generations with an element of truth at their core. The scarcity of early records, which rarely survive, makes it hard to determine the exact moment a business was born, and that is the case with the story of Walter Lilly & Co Limited. The legend goes that the company was established in 1924 when company founder, Walter Gent Lilly, won the freehold to a builder’s yard in a game of cards, assumed to be the company’s long-standing yard in St Ann’s Street, Westminster. In the absence of any surviving documentary evidence to support this story, there is no way to determine its accuracy, and nor can the exact date of the move to the yard be identified.

However, research for the firm’s centenary has discovered that Walter Gent Lilly and his younger brother Sidney Reginald Lilly were operating a building and decorating business under the Walter Lilly name as early as 1922, from premises on Ebury Street near Victoria in London.

This is the story of how a family business endured the transition from family ownership to becoming part of a wider group, with its character, values and strengths intact. It has overcome the challenges of war, economic downturns and regulatory changes, as well as a global pandemic, consolidating a portfolio of expertise spanning high quality residential building and refurbishment, advance technology science facilities and specialist heritage conservation.

Brailsford Road, Brixton c.1910, home to Walter Gent and Laura Lilly after their marriage.

The Bandstand Brockwell Park c.1905, close to Walter Gent and Laura Lilly’s first home in Brixton.

Above: News report of Walter Lilly Annual Outing , Chelsea and General Advertiser

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Map showing St Ann’s Street in 1914–16, where Walter Lilly would later take on the yard at 8 St Ann’s Street, between the Salvation Army Shelter and the Public Baths.

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland Reproduced

Map showing site of Walter Lilly’s Streatham joinery works.

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Members of the Walter Lilly staff team with Walter Gent Lilly (third from right) and Walter Gordon Lilly (fourth from left).

Aerial photo showing sheds at Hainault with camouflage stripes painted on roof.

© Historic England Archive (RAF Photography)

Opposite: Federation of Painting Contractors poster, featuring Walter Gordon Lilly as Vice Chairman of Council, 1945.

Gordon (Left) & Grace Lilly (second from right) with family friends, Mr & Mrs Webster at the Criterion on 26th October 1951 celebrating the Conservative election victory, when Winston Churchill was re-elected as PM.

Above: Photo of staff on outing to Hastings c.1953.

Right: Walter Lilly Vehicles, c.1950s.

Hyde Park Boathouse.

Scan here to watch original 1950’s cinefilm footage.

Plan of Hyde Park Boathouse, constructed by Walter Lilly.

Top: 1950s Advertising.

Above: Walter Lilly Advert, c.1950s.

Bottom: Close-up of a fireplace with the Nichols crest incorporated into the marble surround.

Below: Walter Lilly table at the Lovell Group Christmas Dinner, 1963, Café Royal.

The Cafe Royal was opened in 1865 by Daniel Nichols and its centenary was commemorated at a celebrity luncheon given by present owner Mr Charles Forte, and attended by Mr Vincent Baker, great-grandson of the founder, Daniel Nichols.

Advertisement for Mews Townhouses at Tarrant Place, Crawford St, London.

The underground car park and construction at Tarrant Place, Crawford St, London.

Left: Focus on Lilly, Lovell Link magazine, August 1986.

Below: Walter Lilly offices at Thornton Heath.

Brian Chapman, featured in Lovell Link, September 1979.

Dick Tucker, Walter Lilly’s longest serving member of staff on his 80th birthday, from Lovell Link, February 1990.

Above: Profile of Andrew Postlethwaite in Lovell Link magazine, June 1990.

Left: Profile of Andrew Crispin, a future Managing Director of Walter Lilly in the group newsletter Lovell Link June 1989.

Denis Sear, Managing Director of Walter Lilly, accepting the group safety award 198, from Lovell Link, 12 Dec 1986.

Scan here to watch Walter Lilly’s trainee video.

Baltic Exchange demolition works.

Refurbishment works at Banque Paribas, 33 Wigmore Street, London.

Nelson Mandela officially opens the building in 2001.

Glaxo Wellcome Biotech Beckenham.

Left: Refurbishment of 3–10 Grosvenor Crescent, London.

Above: Intricate fibrous plaster detail of Hanover Lodge.

Refurbishment of One Cornwall Terrace.

Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire.

Fitting of the copper finial to the tower of Cadogan Hall.

The 7th of July Memorial in London’s Hyde Park.

Right: Newport Street Gallery.

Below: Cadogan Hall.

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), winners of the 2023 Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards for Integration and Collaboration.

CHAPTER 6: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Walter Lilly 90th Anniversary Event, Tower of London, 2014.

Delivery of ground source heat pumps to Lambeth Palace.

Breaking ground ceremony for the Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum.

TIMELINE

1924 – Walter Gent Lilly wins the freehold to a builder’s yard in Westminster through a game of cards.

1938 – Timber mill and yard established in Streatham, South London. This new location becomes the company’s main plant storage as well as a joinery shop and a polishing, finishing and painting shop.

1939 – The physical expansion of the business prompted Walter Gent Lilly to register a new company, Walter Lilly & Co Limited, in April 1939. The objects of the company, set out in its Memorandum of Association were to ‘acquire and take over as a going concern and carry on the business of Building Contractors and Decorators and Electrical and Heating Engineers now carried on by Walter Gent Lilly at 8, St Ann’s Street in the City of Westminster under the style or firm of “Walter Lilly & Co”’.

1939 – Declaration of world war brings building work across the country to a standstill. The entire building industry goes under state control during most of the Second World War years.

1942 – The company wins a painting contract with The London Passenger Transport at the London & North Eastern Railway depot at Hainault, North East London. The designs aimed to break up the forms and outlines of objects making them hard to detect by German bomber pilots.

1947 – On 25th January, Walter Gent Lilly dies. Walter Gordon Lilly succeeds his father as Owner and Managing Director.

1948 – The company looks to grow by acquiring plant and machinery to take on more substantial jobs. The company also purchases a fleet of lorries to service its sites, bought from the army at the end of WWII.

1950 – Company expands service offering with property maintenance, establishing a Small Works Department.

1951 – Appointed to construct the West Boathouse at the Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park.

1953 – Business runs into financial difficulties and its future is placed in serious doubt. Receivers appointed having run up debts of £26,000. Although the firm had assets worth £94,000, included in its liabilities was £80,000 owed for plant and machinery alone.

1955 – The business is sold to YJ Lovell Group bringing an end to over thirty years f Lilly family ownership, but continues to trade under the Walter Lilly name.

1956 – The company is appointed to carry out the extensive remodelling of London’s famous Café Royal to enhance both ‘capacity and comfort,’ providing accommodation for 750 patrons, an increase on the previous 400.

1957 – Timber yard is destroyed by fire, damaging £10,000 worth of timber and machinery. With flames rising to around 40 feet, it was the largest fire in the area for some years. Over 120 firemen and 25 pumps were involved in the incident. Construction now becomes the main focus.

1958 – Conversion of London’s Hippodrome theatre for Charles Forte and Bernard Delfont into a large theatre-restaurant known as ‘Talk of the Town’.

1965 – The company continues to expand, becoming a major London contractor, with three offices.

1976 – Walter Lilly begins a business relationship with GSK, which has lasted to the present day.

1978 – Relocation of all operations to Thornton Heath, South London.

Late 1980s – Construction of a mews of townhouses for Lovell Homes over a new basement car park for long-standing client National Car Parks on Crawford Street.

1987 – The original Westminster yard, now outgrown, is sold for redevelopment.

1989 – Lovell of Bucks, based in Beaconsfield and part of the Lovell Construction division became a subsidiary of Walter Lilly but also retained its own name.

1990 – Introduction of individual appraisals and personal development plans, designed to encourage staff to use their own initiative, and also proved an effective way of identifying and nurturing talent within the existing workforce.

1993 – Lovell’s Group rename to YJL plc.

Late 1990s – Starting with the company on 1 January 1927 as a 17-year-old apprentice, Dick Tucker retires in the late 1990s at the age of 85; the company’s longest-serving employee.

1998 – Science and education projects become a key area of focus, securing contracts over the next decade with pharmaceutical clients including GlaxoWellcomme, SmithKline Beecham, Novartis, MSD, Aventis Pharma and Xenova. A significant science contract with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAFF, now DEFRA) if also secured, the beginning of an ongoing relationship that continues to the present day.

1998 – Partnership with Loughborough University commences, sponsoring students each year to the present day.

1998 – Refurbishment work is completed on Ringo Starr’s Grade II country residence in Rydinghurst, Surrey.

1999 – Appointed to carry out the renovation of Southwark Cathedral, Millenium Project.

2000 – Company moves from Thornton Heath to Stafford Road, Croydon.

2004 – Major conservation of Cadogan Hall, Belgravia, from a church to a concert hall.

2005 – Commissioned to carry out a highly specialised project for the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

2005 – In-house capabilities strengthen with the introduction of a dedicated engineering team established by Lovell Group’s Head of Engineering, Derek Brattle, who transferred into Walter Lilly to set up the department, heading it until his retirement in 2017.

2006 – Appointed to undertake extensive restoration work to super prime mansion Hanover Lodge, Regent’s Park.

2009 – Walter Lilly is trusted to create the 7 July Memorial in Hyde Park, in honour of the lives lost during the tragic 2005 London bombings.

2011 – Walter Lilly appointed to undertake refurbishment work to the areas of special interest at London’s Café Royal – 55 years after completing its original restoration.

2012 – Refurbishment of Cornwall Terrace is completed, making it the world’s most expensive terraced house at the time, sold for £80 million.

2012 – Super prime refurbishment work is completed at Dudley House, a Grade II* listed Grecian town mansion located on Park Lane.

2013 – Relationship with global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly commences, resulting in five years of continued laboratory refurbishment work at their Surrey campus.

2014 – Walter Lilly celebrates its 90th anniversary and moves offices to a more central location in East Croydon.

2015 – Walter Lilly launches rebrand to demonstrate core attributes.

2016 – The company is recognised across the industry through various accolades – winner of the Building Awards Contractor of the Year (up to £300m), Newport Street Gallery project awarded RIBA Stirling Prize and numerous craft and trade awards including the Cast Stone Awards, Bick Awards and Critics Circle Visual Arts & Architecture Award.

2016 – Walter Lilly commences working at the Palace of Westminster, which sees the company retain a continual on site presence to the current day. Restoration works would go on to be recognised with awards from the Natural Stone Awards.

2016 – Introduction of the Over & Out Club, a social forum open to those staff who retired with Walter Lilly after 10 years’ service, or those who served more than 25 years with the business at a point in time and have subsequently retired.

2016 – The inauguration of the annual HQR London Summer Ball, introduced by Walter Lilly’s Managing Director of the time Andrew Crispin. HQR London would formally become a charitable Trust, raising much needed funds for construction industry charities at the annual Summer Ball. It surpassed over £500,000 in charitable donations by 2022.

2019 – Relationship commences with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine through Framework appointment.

2019 – Works commence on the design and build of the London Institute of Medical Sciences for the Medical Research Council, what would be the company’s largest contract value to date at £84 million.

2020 – Works commence at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

2020 – Walter Lilly declares commitment to climate change, becoming signatories to the Declaration on Climate and Biodiversity Emergency.

2020 – The global Covid-19 pandemic has an unprecedented impact. Social distancing requirements led to home working for all office-based staff and all sites adopted new procedures, working to guidance developed by Public Health England and the construction sector through the Construction Leadership Council.

2021 – The company expands its service offering with the introduction of a Facilities Management Division.

2022 – Work commences on the Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum, a redevelopment of the Museum’s 5 acre gardens creating a new national learning programme to encourage young people to engage with nature and support urban wildlife. This would become Walter Lilly’s most challenging social value and sustainability driven project to date.

2024 – The business celebrates its Centenary and introduces The Walter Lilly Foundation as a legacy.

ENDNOTES

ENDNOTES

1 Suffolk Marriage Registers, Norfolk Baptism Registers, 1881 Census

2 1 891 Census

3 London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840–1911, London Metropolitan Archives

4 1901 Census

5 1901, 1911 Census, 1939 Register

6 Parish Registers, St Matthew Brixton, London, England

7 ‘Tulse Hill and Brockwell Park’, in Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area, ed. F.H.W. Sheppard (London, 1956), pp.155–166

8 1911 Census

9 East Sheen, Richmond Upon Thames, Hidden London, https:// hidden-london com/gazetteer/east-sheen/. Accessed 15/06/2023

10 ‘The Finest and Cheapest Houses in the Suburbs’, Richmond Herald 3 July 1905 p1, British Newspaper Archive

11 https://www theminters co uk/getperson php?personID=I2&tree=ipswich

12 https://findingaids library northwestern edu/repositories/7/ resources/1233

13 Lilly, Walter & Co. (builders & decorators), File — Box: 56.10, Folder: 25 Identifier: id372672, James B. Pinker Papers, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University

14 Electoral Registers, Wallington, Surrey, 1923, 1929, London Directory 1925

15 England & Wales Civil Registration Birth Index, Walter G Lilly, GRO Ref: Q4 1914 Richmond 2a 955

16 ‘Local Firm’s Annual Outing’, Chelsea and General Advertiser 4 Jul 1924

17 ‘Local Firm’s Annual Outing’, Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 4 July 1924

18 Post Office Directory, 1925

19 Post Office Directories, 1927–8

20 Sidney Reginald & Elizabeth Sophia Lilly, Ronaldville, Rochford Ave, Rochford, Essex, Electoral Register 1929

21 Sidney & Elizabeth Lilly, 3 Pinewood Cottages, Wokingham, Berkshire, 1939 Register

22 Sidney R Lilly, Wessex Road, Abingdon, Berkshire, Electoral Register 1946

23 Sidney R Lilly, Death Index Register, Q2 1957 GRO Ref: Bromley 5b 94

24 Advert for ‘T Cocks & Sons’, Westminster & Pimlico News, 15 December 1922; Advert for Carpenters, Walter Lilly & Co, Orchard Works, St Ann’s St, Westminster, Westminster & Pimlico News, 23 November 1945

25 The History of Council Housing, University of West England, https://fet uwe ac uk/conweb/house ages/council housing / print htm, Slum Clearance Princes Street, Kennington, Lambeth Borough Photos Ref: 14899, Brixton Illustrated Press, July 1925, p.6

26 Note by Denis Sear for Andrew Crispin, c.2016, Walter Lilly Archive

27 Lovell History 1945–61, Walter Lilly Archive

28 Interview with Andrew Crispin, July 2023

29 ‘A Streatham Accident’, South London Observer, p.4, 10 February 1934

30 Notes from Paul Lilly, Walter Lilly Archive

31 Memorandum of Association of Walter Lilly & Co Ltd, 24 April 1939, Walter Lilly Archive

32 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/ cabinet-papers-1915-1984/

33 The London Passenger Transport Board was responsible for local public transport in London between 1933–1948

34 Contract for camouflage of railway carriage sheds at Hainault Depot, 17 September 1942, Transport for London Archive LT000172/032/028, LT000176/009

35 The Story of Camouflage During the Second World War, The Historic England Blog, 7 October 2019

36 1945 Federation of Painting Contractors general meeting at the Connaught Rooms, October 1945, Walter Lilly Archive

37 ‘Carpenters and labourers required’, Westminster & Pimlico News, 23 November 1945

38 ‘Bricklayers wanted of high skill’, South London Observer, 13 December 1946

39 Notes from Paul Lilly, Walter Lilly Archive

40 The contract for camouflaging train sheds at Hainault above was worth only £460 to the firm

41 LMA COL/PHD/AD/05/01A/3310

42 Cabinet Memoranda CP (45) 226, Temporary Housing, Ministry of Works, TNA CAB 129/3 http://filestore nationalarchives gov uk/pdfs/small/cab-129-3-cp-226 pdf

43 UK National Probate Calendar, 1947

44 Marriage of Walter G Lilly to Grace Dench nee Perryman, Marriage Register Index, GRO: Westminster 1a 1328

45 Divorce Court File: 4069. Appellant: Grace Dench. Respondent: Henry Sidney Dench, 1937, TNA J 77/3744/4069

46 Bank of England Inflation Calculator

47 Will of Walter Gent Lilly, UK Probate Service

48 Director’s Returns, Walter Lilly Archive

49 Walter Lilly & Co, Mortgage Charges Register, Companies House

50 Notes from Paul Lilly, Walter Lilly Archive

51 Notes from Paul Lilly, Walter Lilly Archive

52 TNA WORK 77/99, cinefilm footage, Walter Lilly Archive

53 Cinefilm footage, Walter Lilly Archive

54 Streatham Common South Historic Planning Applications, Lambeth Council Planning Department

55 ‘Property Maintenance’, Public Notices, The Times, 1 December 1949

56 Carol Davidson Cragoe, A.R.J. Jurica and Elizabeth Williamson, ‘Parishes: Salperton’, in A History of the County of Gloucester:

Volume 9, Bradley Hundred. The Northleach Area of the Cotswolds, ed. N.M. Herbert (London, 2001), pp.155–166

57 Hulton, Sir Edward George Warris, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

58 Plans for conversion of Salperton Park House, 1951, Gloucestershire Archives DA31/710/1951/6; Plan for conversion of stables at Cotswold Lodge Park, Salperton into Dairy unit, 1951, Gloucestershire Archives DA31/710/1951/7; cinefilm footage, Walter Lilly Archive

59 ‘Tree felling contractors wanted …’, Gloucester Citizen, 11 Jun 1945

60 Letter from Trustee of The Reading Room to Walter Lilly & Co, 6 September 2017, Walter Lilly Archive

61 1950s advertising, Hera Vintage Ads, Alamy, History of Advertising Trust HAT20/2/45/31/2

62 ‘Court told of arrest after midnight chase’, Fulham Chronicle, 16 April 1954

63 ‘Sales by Auction’, Norwood News 15 June 1956

64 Walter Lilly & Co Memorandum & new Articles of Association, 5 Sept 1968, Walter Lilly Archive

65 ‘Family escape in yard fire’, Streatham News, 1 February 1957

66 ‘They clear path for brigade’, Streatham News, 31 May 1963

67 Lovell Group 1945–61, Walter Lilly Archive

68 Lovell Group Magazine, Summer 1965, Walter Lilly Archive

69 www arthurlloyd co uk

70 Financial Times 29 April 1961

71 ‘London Fruit Exchange’s New Vehicle Park’, Financial Times 24 March 1964

72 YJ Lovell (Holdings) plc, The Times 22 May 1968

73 The Lovell Group 1961, Lovell History 1945–61, Walter Lilly Archive. www renewholdings com

74 G. Deahy and K. Waterhouse (1956) Café Royal: Ninety Years of Bohemia; ‘The Café Royal Story’ in Café Royal Times, 2019, pp.1, 14

75 ‘Café Royal Refurbishments’ The Times 23 February 1923; ‘The Café Royal Story’ in Café Royal Times, 2019, pp.4.

76 Café Royal Times 2019, pp.4.

77 L. Frewin (ed), 1963, The Café Royal Story, p.85

78 Daily Mirror, 13 December, 1957, p.2

79 Frewin, pp.86–8

80 Ibid. pp.88, 91

81 Ibid. p.6, pp.97–98

82 Café Royal Project Profile, Walter Lilly

83 The new entertainment policy of director Bernard Delfont, as quoted in The Stage, 22 August 1957, p.1

84 E. Johns, The Talk of the Town, The Stage, 11 September 1958 p.14; L. Gosling (2022), The London Hippodrome pp.129–131

85 Ibid; The Talk of the Town, The Stage, 21 August 1958, p.10

86 L. Gosling (2022), The London Hippodrome p.131

87 R. Baker (2014), British Music Hall: An Illustrated History, p.70–1

88 L. Gosling (2022), The London Hippodrome

89 Walter Lilly & Co Advert, Croydon Times, 24 Feb 1961

90 ‘Homes for Tomorrow’, The Financial Times, 22 November 1965

91 Walter Lilly Project Profiles

92 ‘Supermarket for Ilford’, The Times, 31 August 1966

93 ‘Home Orders …’, The Times 12 December 1966

94 Walter Lilly & Co, Memorandum and new Articles of Association, 5 September 1968, Walter Lilly Archive

95 Seal Book 1973–1995, Walter Lilly Archive

96 Denis Sear letter to Andrew Crispin, Walter Lilly Archive; Lovell Link May 1982

97 ‘Focus on Lilly’ Lovell Link, August 1986, Walter Lilly Archive

98 Historic Planning Applications, Westminster Council Planning Department

99 ‘Focus on Lilly’ Lovell Link, August 1986, Walter Lilly Archive

100 ‘Widespread falls carry shares to lowest level this year’, The Times, 24 August 1976

101 Temporary offices at Kings Cross Coach Station, 1962, London Metropolitan Archives GLC/AR/BR/17/035964

102 Alterations to the Fleece Tavern, 1976, London Metropolitan Archives COL/SVD/PL/02/0370

103 Minutes re Kingston Church Tower 1972–3, Surrey History Centre 4491/2/6

104 Seal Book 1973–1995, Walter Lilly Archive

105 ‘People in Profile’, Lovell Link, September 1979, Walter Lilly Archive

106 Interviews with Peter Beckley Malcom Patrick, July 2023

107 Walter Lilly Annual Report & Accounts, 1986–7, Companies House

108 Letter Denis Sear to Andrew Crispin, Walter Lilly Archive

109 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

110 ‘Staff told of switch’, Lovell Link December 1989, Walter Lilly Archive

111 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

112 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

113 Frances Sacker Obituary, LJ Today, September/October 2006, Open Library

114 Walter Lilly & Company Ltd: Report on Audit, Frances Sacker, The Sacker Consultancy, March 1990, Walter Lilly Archive

115 ‘Quality must include service’, Lovell Link June 1989, Walter Lilly Archive

116 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

117 Walter Lilly & Company Ltd: Report on Audit, Frances Sacker, The Sacker Consultancy, March 1990, Walter Lilly Archive

118 ‘Dick passes his diamond jubilee with Walter Lilly’, Lovell Link February 1987, Walter Lilly Archive

119 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

120 Seal Book 1973–1995, Walter Lilly Archive

121 ‘Awards for Lilly trainees’, Lovell Link August 1987; ‘College nominees at Lilly’, Lovell Link October 1987; ‘Lovell Lads prove best of the BEC’, Lovell Link February 1989, ‘Trainees

win more awards’, Lovell Link August 1989, Walter Lilly Archive

122 ‘Have you considered a career in the Construction Industry’, Lovell Advert, Fulham Chronicle, 16 June 1972; ‘We believe our people are the investment of the future’, Lovell Link December 1989’, Walter Lilly Archive

123 www walterlilly co uk/people Accessed 29 June 2023

124 ‘Lilly Tops in Super Safe ’85, Lovell Link 1985, Walter Lilly Archive; ‘Another Walter Lilly First in Safety’, Lovell Link April 1989, Walter Lilly Archive. ‘Safety award for site manager’ Billericay Gazette, 2 May 1996

125 ‘In safe hands’ New Addington Advertiser, 7 August 1998

126 ‘Walter Lilly appointment’ Lovell Link June 1995, Walter Lilly Archive

127 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

128 ‘Diverse city trio for Walter Lilly’, Lovell Link, Summer 1991

129 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

130 ‘Diverse city trio for Walter Lilly’, Lovell Link, Summer 1991

131 Walter Lilly would retain GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as a client following the merger of the two

132 YJL plc Annual Report, 1998

133 YJL plc Annual Report 2000

134 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

135 Seal Book 1973–1995, Walter Lilly Archive

136 Walter Lilly Job List, Walter Lilly Archive

137 1992–1995, Timeline, www balticexchange com Accessed 03/07/23

138 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

139 ‘Extreme restoration’, BBC News Magazine, 5 July 2007

140 Interview with Ron Bates, June 2023

141 https://churchofjesuschristtemples org /london-englandtemple Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

142 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

143 Interview with Steve Dell, June 2023

144 ‘It’s coming up roses at £7m Lilly’, Beaconsfield Advertiser 28 August 1996

145 YJL plc Annual Report 1999

146 Seal Book 1973–1995, Walter Lilly Archive

147 YJL plc Annual Report 1999

148 YJL plc Annual Report 2000

149 Felbridge & District History Group, Newchapel House, 2002

150 Edward O. Anderson papers (Box 20 ACCN 3091), Special Collections, University of Utah Libraries; Temple Booklet produced on the occasion of the Open House of the London Temple, 1992

151 Anderson papers

152 Temple Booklet produced on the occasion of the Open House of the London Temple, 1992

153 ‘London England Temple’ https://churchofjesus christtemples org /london-england-temple/

154 ‘Newchapel House’ Felbridge & District History Group nd

155 Interview with Ron Bates, June 2023

156 Interview with Doug Blyth, June 2023

157 https://southwarkcathedralvenues org /about /

158 https://cathedral southwark anglican org /about-us/ourhistory/southwark-corbels/

159 https://cathedral southwark anglican org /about-us/news/ harvard-chapel-archaeological-investigations/

160 Richard Griffiths Architects Southwark Cathedral Millennium Project Project Sheet

161 D. Divers et al, 2009, A New Millennium at Southwark Cathedral: Investigations into the first two thousand years, PCA Monograph 8 p.ix, 1

162 Walter Lilly project profile https://www walterlilly co uk/ projects/southwark-cathedral-millennium-project /

163 ‘Award-winning ways with stone’, Architects Journal 18 December 2003 (online edition)

164 https://www tylersandbricklayers co uk/awards/triennialawards/triennial-awards-2002/101-2002-awards

165 Interview with Andrew Postlethwaite, July 2023

166 Walter Lilly Supplier List; Interview with Joe McCormick, July 2023

167 Interview with Sandra Orchard, July 2023

168 Interview with Derek Brattle, July 2023

169 Interview with Andrew Postlethwaite, July 2023; Walter Lilly Job List, Walter Lilly Archive

170 YJL News Issue 4 2003, Walter Lilly Archive

171 ‘Building on 90 years business experience’, Croydon Advertiser, 11 April 2014

172 Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), www walterlilly co uk/projects

173 James Black Centre Project Profile, Walter Lilly, https:// www kcl ac uk/scmms/research-impact /research-facilities Accessed 14 Dec 2023

174 https://www kcl ac uk/scmms/research-impact /researchfacilities Accessed 14 Dec 2023

175 James Black Centre Project Profile, Walter Lilly: https:// modbs co uk/news/archivestory php/aid/3063/ Accessed 14 Dec 2023

176 James Black Centre Project Profile, Walter Lilly

177 https://surveyoflondon org /map/feature/1261/detail/ Accessed 15/12/2023

178 QMB Innovation Centre Project Summary, NBBJ

179 QMB Innovation Centre Project Profile, Walter Lilly: https:// qminnovation co uk/qmb/ Accessed 15/12/2023

180 https://qminnovation co uk/qmb/ Accessed 15/12/2023

181 QMB Innovation Centre Project Summary, NBBJ; QMB Innovation Centre Project Profile, Walter Lilly

182 ‘RIBA London Awards 2010 shortlist revealed’, Royal Institute of British Architects Press Release, 30 March 2010

183 ‘Successful Framework Relationship Continues with Walter Lilly and DEFRA’, 9 August 2022, www walterlilly co uk

184 DEFRA Virology Technical Overview, Walter Lilly

185 DEFRA Virology Project Profile, Walter Lilly 186 Hanover Lodge Project Profile, Walter Lilly 187 Hanover Lodge Project Profile, Walter Lilly 188 Cornwall Terrace Project Profile, Walter Lilly

189 Project Bond Project Profile, Walter Lilly

190 Event flyers and Guest Lists, 2009–2019, Walter Lilly Archive

191 www hqrlondon com

192 ‘Park Lane’, in Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings), ed. F.H.W. Sheppard (London, 1980), pp.264–9; National Heritage List for England ‘Dudley House’ List Entry Number 1226028.

193 Survey of London Ibid

194 https://formationarchitects.co.uk/projects/100-park-lane

195 Interview with Paul Rough, July 2023; https://johnplanck. co.uk/case-studies/100-park-lane/

196 Ibid

197 Formation Architects Ibid

198 James Reginato ‘Sheik Shack’ in Vanity Fair 14 January 2015 (online edition)

199 Paul Rough interview, Ibid

200 Interview with Andrew Crispin, July 2003

201 Historic England List Entry for Hanover Lodge, List Entry Number 1226115

202 Walter Lilly project profile https://www walterlilly co uk/ projects/hanover-lodge-regents-park/

203 http://www lockerandriley com/services/residential

204 Ibid

205 https://www rightmove co uk/news/articles/dreamproperties/not-your-average-terraced-house-one-cornwallterrace-up-for-sale/

206 Walter Lilly project profile https://www walterlilly co uk/ projects/cornwall-terrace-regents-park/

207 https://www walterlilly co uk/projects/kilnwood-burnhambeeches/

208 https://www loweoliver co uk/Kilnwood-House

209 https://www walterlilly co uk/projects/kilnwood-burnhambeeches/

210 https://www walterlilly co uk/walter-lilly-secures-two-newcountry-estate-projects/ Walter Lilly Project Profile

211 Cambridge House Project Profile, Walter Lilly

212 https://www royalparks org uk/parks/hyde-park/thingsto-see-and-do/memorials,-fountains-and-statues/7-julymemorial Accessed 25/07/2023

213 Blog: Conservation & Regeneration SECBE Awards 2020 finalist – Chancellors Court & State Officers Court, Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards, 29 May 2020. Accessed 26/07/2023

214 Newport Street Gallery Project Profile, Walter Lilly

215 P. Comerford, 2007 ‘The Christian Science church in Chelsea,’ http://www patrickcomerford com/2022/10/the-christianscience-church-in-chelsea html Accessed 27 July 2023

216 https://cadoganhall com/about-us/cadogan-hall-history/

217 Walter Lilly project

218 Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea District Surveyors Newsletter Building Control News, Issue 3, 2004, pp.1–2

219 https://www carmodygroarke com/7-july-memorial/; Dan Stewart, 2009 ‘Memorial honours victims of 2005 Tube bombings’ in Building online edition 7 July 2009

220 https://www carmodygroarke com/7-july-memorial/

221 7th July Memorial Project Profile, Walter Lilly

222 Walter Lilly filming day managing director interviews, July 2023

223 List Entry Number 1249942, Historic England

224 Newport Street Gallery Project Profile, Walter Lilly

225 Newport Street Gallery by Caruso St John, Architect’s Journal, 20 October 2015

226 Newport Street Gallery Project Profile, Walter Lilly

227 Newport Street Gallery Project Profile, Walter Lilly

228 https://www remmers co uk/en GB/references/palace-ofwestminster-court-yard-conservation-london/detail/1683

229 https://www ce-awards co uk/blog-post /354/Conservation&-Regeneration-SECBE-Awards-2020-finalist ChancellorsCourt-&-State-Officers-Court

230 Walter Lilly News 30 December 2018 https://www walterlilly co uk/conservation-works-recognised-at-the-stonefederations-natural-stone-awards/

231 Walter Lilly News 8 July 2020 https://www walterlilly co uk/ houses-of-parliament-restoration-project-reaches-finals-inconstructing-excellence-secbe-awards/

232 Walter Lilly News 8 March 2019 https://www walterlilly co uk/walter-lilly-in-the-parliamentary-review-2019-buildingdesign-best-practice/

233 https://www architecture com/knowledge-and-resources/ knowledge-landing-page/riba-stirling-prize-2016-winner Accessed 25/07/2023

234 Millennium Project Southwark Cathedral Project Profile, Walter Lilly

235 7th July Memorial Project Profile, Walter Lilly

236 About Us, Awards, www walterlilly co uk

237 Millennium Project Southwark Cathedral Project Profile, Walter Lilly; Building Manager of the Year Awards brochure, Construction Manager, 2002, Walter Lilly Archive

238 Walter Lilly Archive

239 CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Award brochure, 2010, Walter Lilly Archive

240 Bronze National Award 21 Manresa Road 2007; Bronze National Award VLA Weybridge 2008; Bronze National Site Award VLA Weybridge 2010; Bronze National Site Award 39–45 Cadogan Gardens 2010; Silver National Site Award 20 Palace Gardens 2018; Performance Beyond Compliance: 147/149 Ebury St, 34/36 Ebury St, Queen Mary Innovation Centre; Walter Lilly Archive

241 Covid-19 Update, 19 May 2020, Walter Lilly website. Accessed 18/07/23

242 Covid-19 Update, 19 May 2020, Walter Lilly website. Accessed 18/07/23

243 Information provided by Joe McCormick, July 2023

244 https://lms mrc ac uk/about-us/our-mission/ Accessed 24/07/2023

245 Walter Lilly to Deliver Project for the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College, 10 Nov 2022, walterlilly co uk

246 https://aurorahp co uk/case-study/remediation-ofcontaminated-ground-at-the-former-mc40-cyclotronhammersmith/

247 https://briggsandforrester co uk/briggs-forresterengineering-services-complete-works-on-the-lms-buildinghammersmith-hospital/

248 https://www hawkinsbrown com/projects/mrc-londoninstitute-of-medical-sciences/ https://www burohappold com/projects/london-institutemedical-sciences-lms/

249 https://www walterlilly co uk/walter-lilly-celebrateconstruction-completion-of-our-flagship-project /

https://www walterlilly co uk/projects/mrc-london-instituteof-medical-sciences/

250 https://www fosterandpartners com/projects/imperialcollege-sir-alexander-fleming-building

251 Walter Lilly project profile https://www walterlilly co uk/ projects/department-of-infectious-disease-doid/

252 https://www imperial ac uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/ saf/

253 Harwell Science & Innovation Campus www harwellcampus com Accessed 18/12/23

254 MRC Harwell NCPI Project Profile, Walter Lilly

255 ‘Lambeth Palace Refurbishment’ 07/07/2021 https://www archbishopofcanterbury org /news/news-and-statements/ lambeth-palace-refurbishment

256 Directors’ conversation, Walter Lilly, July 2023

257 Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum www walterlilly co uk; https://www nhm ac uk/about-us/urbannature-project html

258 The Urban Nature Project, https://www nhm ac uk/aboutus/urban-nature-project html

259 https://www wrightandwright co uk/projects/lambethpalace-masterplan

260 https://www britannica com/topic/Lambeth-Palace

261 https://www wrightandwright co uk/projects/lambethpalace-masterplan; https://www archbishopofcanterbury org /news/news-and-statements/lambeth-palacerefurbishment

262 https://www wrightandwright co uk/projects/lambethpalace-masterplan

263 John Joyce filming day interview, July 2023

264 J. Davis, 2022, ‘Work begins on the Museum’s landmark garden redevelopment’ in NHM News, online edition 8 September 2022

265 History and architecture Natural History Museum (nhm ac uk)

266 https://www nhm ac uk/about-us/a-history-of-the-museumgrounds-and-wildlife-garden

267 Natural History Museum Urban Nature Project Electric Pump Technical Case Study, Walter Lilly

268 https://www linkedin com/feed/update/ urn:li:activity:7090694882628907008/ Accessed 19/12/23

269 Filming day interview with John Joyce, July 2023

270 Urban Nature Project Awarded Silver Prize at Holcim Foundation Awards https://www walterlilly co uk/urbannature-project-awarded-silver-prize-at-holcim-foundationawards/

271 As defined by the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. Scope 1: Direct emissions; Scope 2: Indirect emissions

272 Carbon Reduction Plan, Walter Lilly, April 2022

273 Directors’ conversation, Walter Lilly, July 2023

274 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy, Walter Lilly. As at 24/07/2021

275 Walter Lilly Employee Data

276 Interview with Chris Butler, July 2023

277 Chris Butler speech, Over and Out Club Lunch, July 2023

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

chris Butler, Walter Lilly Managing Director (1998–current)

andrew postlethwaite, Walter Lilly Board Director (1984–current)

John Joyce, Walter Lilly Board Director (1998–current)

Shaun Frampton, Walter Lilly Board Director (2004–current)

ron Bates, Managing Director, Walter Lilly retiree (1971–2013)

malcolm patrick, Divisional Manager, Walter Lilly retiree (1978–2007)

doug Blyth, Managing Director, Walter Lilly retiree (1980–2000)

derek Brattle, Chief Engineer, Walter Lilly retiree (1983–2017)

andrew crispin, Managing Director, Walter Lilly retiree (1984–2018)

Graham corless, Financial Director, Walter Lilly retiree (1985–2015)

peter Beckley, Divisional Manager, Walter Lilly retiree (1987–2010)

paul rough, Senior Project Manager, Walter Lilly retiree (2000–2019)

Steve dell, Commercial Manager, Walter Lilly retiree (2002–2021)

Sandra orchard, Health & Safety Coordinator, Walter Lilly retiree (2006–2017)

paul Lilly, grandson of Walter Gent Lilly

We would also like to acknowledge the contribution of our consultants, subcontractors and suppliers.

This edition is limited to 450 copies. This is book number