[3] After the war, Ford resumed his studies and won the acclaimed Ashpitel Prize for top marks in his final Royal Institute of British Architects examinations in 1919.
[4] Ford lived at Eltham from 1930 and worked extensively in south east London where he started to specialise in churches and became diocesan architect for Southwark.
[4][5] Ford was "not known for his love of advanced modern architecture and his churches derive from a number of styles, though many show primarily the influence of Sir John Soane (1753–1837) and other architects of the Regency".
[3][9] In their preface to The Letchworth Version of the New Testament, the brothers praise the King James Version and state their aim to be the simplification of its language so that it could be comprehensible to a modern ear and the vast majority of ordinary people, a view they had gained over the years working with the poor and for Ralph, as a scripture reader to the forces during World War II.
[3] On 23 June 1945, Thomas Ford "read his paper entitled the 'Need for a Revision of the English Bible' before the Ecclesiological Society in London".