Albert Nelson Bromley

Albert Nelson Bromley (15 July 1850 - 16 August 1934) was a Scottish architect based in Nottingham.

He was born in Stafford on 15 July 1850, the son of Charles Nelson Bromley (1817-1853) and Emma Bakewell (1819-1907). He studied in the practice of his uncle, Frederick Bakewell, and in 1874 was promoted to partner.

Within two years Bakewell went into retirement and Bromley set up his own practice. He became principal architect to the Nottingham School Board and undertook several projects for the Nottingham and District Tramways Company. He was also architect to the National Telephone Company.

In 1897 he was in partnership with Thomas Herbert Waumsley, and later also Harry Garnham Watkins. In 1904 Thomas Cecil Howitt, the future architect of the Council House and Council housing, joined Bromley’s office as an apprentice, and from 1907 was his assistant. In 1928 Harry Garnham Watkins left the partnership and Thomas Nelson Cartwight joined, and Bromley, Cartwright & Waumsley were architects to Boots the Chemist.

He married Elizabeth Skepper Brogden (1853-1940) on 11 April 1878 in St Swithin's Church, Lincoln and they had one daughter, Kathleen Christiana Bromley (1879-1967).

He died on 16 August 1934 at 15 Newcastle Drive, Nottingham and left an estate of £63,359 14s. 2d. (equivalent to £4,056,600 in 2015).

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