Edwin Airey

[3][4] He attended Leeds Central High School and the Yorkshire College, and in 1904 married Edith Greaves: they had one son and four daughters.

[7] During the Second World War the company produced huts for American troops stationed in the UK.

This led to the development of concrete slab units which could be quickly assembled into houses to replace those destroyed during the war.

Prototypes were put up in Seacroft, Leeds in 1945, followed by hundreds in the London County Council area.

He lived in Oakwood Grange[4] where Louis Le Prince filmed the Roundhay Garden Scene in 1888, credited as the first motion picture.