Anthony Minoprio

[3] His architectural training also came in Liverpool under Charles Herbert Reilly, "a believer in grand neoclassical designs of wide avenues".

[1] In 1932, Minoprio and Spencely designed an extension to the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool, founded in 1791 by Edward Rushton.

Their plans showed extensive areas of open space and parkland, especially around the cathedral, and a combined shopping centre and bus station, among other features.

[12] This time, Minoprio's vision of a carefully planned and balanced community was seen through to its conclusion by the Development Corporation[11] under the leadership of its "dogmatic and highly successful" chairman Thomas Bennett.

[13] Crawley is now much larger than originally anticipated: the plan's target population of 50,000 was exceeded within 13 years of work beginning,[14] and there are now more than 105,000 residents.

[16] Minoprio worked again with Spencely and another town planner, Peter Macfarlane, on master plans for several cities outside England in the 1950s and 1960s.