Sir Aynsley Vernon Bridgland
(1893-1966), Civil enginer and company directorSitter in 1 portrait
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 9 November 1959
NPG x191056
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Carole Copeland
11 July 2021, 11:27
Janine Wilson
I have a photo of you I believe !
janine wilson
08 September 2020, 05:07
Carole Copeland ..I believe my parents Roy and Kath Wakerell may also have worked for Sir Aynsley and Lady Bridgland at one point too. I have heard my mum mention Barry a few times and I have memories of a speedboat? [was only 4 when we left the UK] and I have a little doll from my childhood in England that I named Sir Aynsley :)
CAROLE Copeland
04 July 2020, 12:37
Sir Aynsley was a lovely man. I worked for him and Lady Bridgland at their house in Sandwich Kent. I greatly admired him for his philanthropy and hard work. I met up with his son Barry a couple of years ago when he was on holiday from the US.
Belinda Devery
05 May 2019, 07:34
Sir Aynsley Bridgland ("A.V.B.") was born in Adelaide, Australia on 24th May 1893 and began his adult life as a civil engineer, helping to survey the route for the North-South railway. In WW1 he served on the Western Front as an officer in the Machine Gun Corps. After the war, he acted as a representative in Australia of John D. Rockfeller, moving to Britain in 1929 with plans for building large blocks of flats and offices in London. He soon became identified with many large projects in Britain and South Africa. His development of the London Clinic (as Chairman of the Trustees) and sponsorship of the Golf Society of Great Britain were just two instances of the tremendous energy and unremitting toil he put into any project. In 1954 during excavation for the erection of Bucklersbury House, workmen unearthed ruins which excited archaeological interest and were found to be remains of a temple erected some 1,900 years earlier by Romans to the Persian sun-god Mithras. AVB halted works for public inspection and then financed almost entirely the cost of removing the relics to preserve elsewhere. He was knighted in 1959 for political and public services. He died in 1966.
Nicola Allen
15 July 2021, 21:28
My uncle Norman Copping was Sir Aynsleys chauffer.