Fred Pooley
British architect
Born on: April 18, 1916Died on: March 11, 1998
Aged: 81 years 327 days (982 months)
Birth Sign: Aries
Frederick Bernard Pooley CBE was best known as the county architect of Buckinghamshire, and for his futuristic monorail proposals for a new town in north Bucks that eventually became Milton Keynes.
Pooley was born in West Ham, east London and trained at the Northern Polytechnic in the evenings, while working in the West Ham engineer's department by day.
He qualified as an architect, planner and surveyor before serving with the Royal Engineers during World War II. He also qualified as a structural engineer and arbitrator.
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