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	Played in Britain - Leitch 2
		Archibald Leitch, photographed at the age of 32, in 1897, for the Glasgow Atheneum, where he gave evening classes in mechanical drawing.
		Leitch was first and foremost a factory architect, as suggested by the stand roof at Molineux, Wolverhampton, completed in 1932.
		Leitch oversaw the transformation of Molineux from a Victorian leisure ground with a cycling track to a modern football venue with four covered stands and huge areas of terracing, all fitted with Leitch's patented crush barriers.
	www.playedinbritain.co.uk /books/archie-2.html (269 words)

	Archibald Leitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Archibald Leitch (April 27, 1865 – 1939) was a Scottish architect, most famous for his work designing football stadiums throughout the United Kingdom.
		Leitch's stadiums were initially considered functional rather than aesthetically elegant, and were clearly influenced by his early work on industrial buildings.
		Typically, his stands had two tiers, with criss-crossed steel balustrades at the front of the upper tier, and were covered by a series of pitched roofs, built so that their ends faced onto the playing field; the central roof span would be distinctly larger, and would incorporate a distinctive pediment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archibald_Leitch (352 words)

	Guardian \| Life and soul of the Party
		His father, Archibald Leitch Smith, was prevented by his position as a public servant from being involved in politics but his allegiance was no secret to his family, and in retirement he became an active Labour Party member.
		As a boy of two, Archibald was the sole survivor from an outbreak of the plague which wiped out all the adults and older children in the tiny coastal settlement.
		Archibald Leitch Smith was one of the first in the family to leave the village to complete his education, finally at Glasgow University.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4920689-110875,00.html (3372 words)

	Leitch Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
		Re: Archibald Leitch of Greenock, Scotland - Dunroamin 1/11/01
		Re: Archibald Leitch of Greenock, Scotland - Ellen McKanna 1/11/01
		Re: Archibald Leitch of Greenock, Scotland - Ellen McKanna 1/13/01
	genforum.genealogy.com /leitch/all.html (3241 words)

	Ibrox Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its designer was Archibald Leitch, the Scottish engineer responsible for stands at the grounds of Arsenal, Manchester United, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Aston Villa.
		Leitch's work was later to become amongst the most celebrated of football architecture.
		A further series of developments was instituted in the early 1990s to enable the stadium to comply with the requirements of the Taylor Report.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibrox_Stadium (807 words)

	Engineering Archie : Publication Highlights : Online Bookshop : Publications : Learning & Resources : English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Archibald Leitch, football stand engineer. For Simon Inglis, Archibald Leitch was one of the most important figures in British football history.
		Archibald Leitch Drawing ‘It was the early 1980s when I started researching the first edition of my book The Football Grounds of England and Wales that Archie started to loom large in my professional life.
		Leitch’s name was then virtually unknown, and it was only after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 – when I was appointed to sit on various advisory bodies relating to stadium design – that I began to fully appreciate his extraordinary contribution.
	www.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/ConWebDoc.5817 (609 words)

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		The stand was different from the usual Leitch formula, as it had two tiers and an unusual roof comprising nine spans, with the gables face-on to the pitch.
		Forsaking the conventional Leitch formula, the club took the brave and visionary decision to appoint an acclaimed architect.
		The original Leitch stand was too expensive to maintain, and too limiting in its facilities.
	members.lycos.co.uk /keke/arsenalstad1.htm (783 words)

	Played in Britain - Leitch
		In the second book of the Played in Britain series, stadium expert Simon Inglis recalls the life and work of Archibald Leitch (1865-1939), the Scottish engineer whose designs were to football what Frank Matcham was to theatre.
		In addition to his work in football Inglis also traces Leitch's roots as an engineer and factory architect during his formative years in Glasgow in the late 19th century.
		Leitch's grandstand for Anfield, Liverpool, in 1906 (above), was the first reinforced concrete stand in Britain.
	www.playedinbritain.co.uk /books/archie.html (663 words)

	Explore Glasgow - All Round the City
		In the 1920's Archibald Leitch was the favoured architect of Glasgow's major football clubs.
		Archibald Leitch's façade was composed in red brick with a few decorative touches.
		If you cross over one of the many bridges from the city centre to the south side of the River Clyde you will arrive in the Gorbals, which until the late 1950's was densely populated with street after street of tenement houses.
	www.scotcities.com /peripheral.htm (1474 words)

	Crowsnest Highway
		One, Archibald Kenneth Leitch, established his Cranbrook Lumber Company and quickly built it into the area’s number one employer as he chopped and sawed the local forests of Douglas-fir and Ponderosa pine into building material.
		Archibald and Malcolm were two of four brothers who emigrated initially to Oak Lake, Manitoba, from the Québec side of the Ottawa valley.
		A.J. (Angus?) Leitch interested himself in the development of a coal show at Passburg in the eastern Crowsnest Pass, but died.
	www.crowsnest-highway.ca /cgi-bin/citypage.pl?city=CRANBROOK (8130 words)

	Leitch Family Genealogy Forum
		Leitch from Fife, Scotland - Dave Leitch 5/02/06
		Leitches in Scots 1901 census Lothians - Doug Leitch 2/05/02
		Leitch from Edinburgh MLN and Tranent ELN - Doug Leitch 12/16/01
	genforum.genealogy.com /leitch (1138 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Football - Archie's in with bricks
		By 1914 the combined capacity of the three was in the region of 200,000, and rising.
		Glasgow was also home to the world’s first specialist football ground designer, Archibald Leitch - not to be confused with Archie Leach, aka Cary Grant - he was 20th century football’s most prolific and influential stadium designer.
		Mr Leitch has successfully tackled similar jobs on a smaller scale, but Ibrox Park is unique in many respects, and the utmost credit is due to him for the very substantial, stable, and artistic laying out of the grounds.
	sport.scotsman.com /football.cfm?id=325042005 (2063 words)

	English Football - Highbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Designed by renowned stadium architect Archibald Leitch, it featured a single stand on the eastern side, and the other three sides had banked terracing.
		Leitch’s main stand was demolished to make way for a new East Stand matching the west one in 1936, with its distinctive facade facing onto Avenell Road.
		The terraces at the north and south ends were both given roofs, and the southern terrace had a clock fitted to its front, giving it the name Clock End.
	www.english-football.org.uk /stadiums-grounds/highbury (908 words)

	Saints World - Southampton FC - The Dell
		Two years earlier his firm designed a stand for Portsmouth, and the one at the Dell would be another, off-the-shelf standard, built by Leitch's favoured team of the Knightbridge contractors, Humphreys, and the Clyde Structural Company of Glasgow.
		The West Stand was officially opened on 7th January 1928, by a well-known FA official and Hampshire football notable, William Pickford, in the presence of the Mayor, local MP, Archibald Leitch and a local contralto, Miss Marion Knight, who filled the ground with her rendition of 'Land of Hope and Glory'.
		It was a suitably stirring choice, because for a middling Second Division club with average gates of 10-12,000, the ground improvements represented a major risk.
	www.saintsworld.net /thedell.html (1795 words)

	An Objective View of Goodison Park -- by Johns Burns
		In 1969 the old Archibald Leitch designed, Goodison Road stand, of 1909 was demolished to make way for its replacement, the Main Stand, opened in 1971.
		The Archibald Leitch creations, the Bullens Road and Gwladys Street stands, date from 1926 and 1938 respectively.
		The old Twickenham, with its double-decker Archibald Leitch stands was very similar to Goodison Park.
	geocities.com /evertonia.geo/gp-objective.html (2941 words)

	footballsite - Quiz answers
		As a help the people are listed in the order they became well known, with the oldest first.
		If you are well-travelled supporter you will almost certainly been at a club whose ground or a stand was designed by Archibald Leitch.
		Leitch was an engineer and architect who was born in Glasgow in 1866 and from the start of the twentieth century to his death in 1939 he became the most famous ground designers of all time.
	www.footballsite.co.uk /Quiz/Quiz015answers.htm (314 words)

	Lamont Baptisms & Births, Dunoon & Kilmun, Argyll, Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dau to Archibald Lamont in Keounstown and Margaret Gillies.
		1777 Nov. 20 John, Lawful Son to Archibald Lamont or McPhorich and Mary MacArthur Spouses in Killelan of this Parish was born the 20th and Baptised the 21st day of November 1700 and seventy seven by y Mins of y Parish.
		1780 April 24 Archibald Son Lawfull to John Lamont or McPhorich and Catherine Buchannon Spouses in Halftown of Ardentinny said Parish of Dunoon and Kilmun was Born the 22 and Baptised the 24th both days of Aprile in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty.
	home.att.net /~jndlewis/DKBaptisms.html (4549 words)

	No Land Grab: Crowd pleasers
		Most of the legendary ones - Old Trafford, Anfield, Highbury, Ibrox, Twickenham, Craven Cottage - were partly or wholly the work of an obscure Glaswegian architect called Archibald Leitch.
		When Leitch died in 1939 he seems to have had just one obituary, a brief notice by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, which didn’t mention stadiums.
		Leitch didn’t bother making his stadiums look good.
	www.nolandgrab.org /archives/2005/06/crowd_pleasers.html (1733 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Sports
		It was thought that Celtic Park was the work of architect Archibald Leitch, who designed early stadiums for some of Britain's top clubs, including Glasgow Rangers in 1910.
		Leitch, a working class Protestant, was reared in the Gallowgate area of Glasgow.
		Leitch was acquitted at trial on negligence charges.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=16350 (1757 words)

	IBC Research
		Regarding breast cancer in general, Leitch wrote "I do not know any criteria that will enable the patholgist to predict a slow or a rapid course in the disease.
		Most of the current surgical text-books fail to make any reference to this particular class of cancers though they are a fairly well-defined class.
		Leitch dismisses the "contraction of the fibrous tissue in the tumour acting through the suspensory ligaments of Astley Cooper" as the cause of peau d'orange, arguing that "the condition is found only in very rapidly growing, rapidly expanding tumours, in which the fibrous tissue is at a min mum."
	www.ibcresearch.org /research/ibcwhatweknow_1814_1979.htm (2971 words)

	Huddersfield Town \| History \| Club History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yet so confident were the directors that Town could emulate Bradford by gaining membership of the Football League that within two years, though still a modest Midland League outfit, they invited the ubiquitous Archibald Leitch to draw up plans for the complete reconstruction of the ground.
		Estimated at £6,000, Leitch's scheme entailed turning the pitch by 90 degrees and constructing a 4,000 seat stand on similar lines to his earlier designs for Fulham, Chelsea and Spurs, that is with a paddock in front and a pitched roof enhanced by a central pedimented gable.
		With Leitch's impressive (if somewhat familiar) plans in hand the directors then set off to London in June 1910 to persuade the Football League to make Town its newest member.
	www.htafc.premiumtv.co.uk /page/ClubHistory/0,,10312,00.html (1670 words)

	bantamspastlinks
		Leitch designed the Main Stand, with its distinctive three gables, and the adjacent ‘Dolls House’, which was the changing and committee rooms.
		However, Leitch’s terrace and crush barriers at the Horton Park end can still be seen to this day.
		His audience grew significantly and remained as Simon described the massive effect Leitch had on stadium designs in the twentieth century.
	www.bantamspast.co.uk /bantamspastlinks.html (712 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: Leitch Family Home Page
		The Leitches I am researching settled in Erin Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada between 1851 and 1861.
		My great grandfather, JOHN LEITCH, was born in the neighbouring county of Peel in 1846 but later moved to the Erin area where he married ELIZABETH McDONALD.
		John Leitch and Elizabeth McDonald had seven children: John Wesley, Jessie, Flora, Donald, Archibald, Malcolm and Elizabeth.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/l/e/i/Susan-R-Leitch (281 words)

	We love you Everton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On the East side of the ground the stand is divided into the Upper Bullens, Lower Bullens and the Paddock.
		Another two-tier Archibald Leitch stand, divided into Upper Gwladys and Lower Gwladys.
		The current Main Stand was completed in 1971, at a cost of £1m, following the demolition of the previous 1909 incarnation (another Archibald Leitch design).
	www.weloveyoueverton.netfirms.com /goodison.htm (661 words)

	Manuxtreme's Manchester United Goals
		Built in 1909, for the then huge sum of £60,000 it was terraced on three sides with a seated main stand undercover.
		The stadium was designed by famous Scottish architect Archibald Leitch, who also designed stands at Hampden Park, Ibrox Stadium and White Hart Lane.
		In 1911 and 1915 it held the FA Cup final and in 1920 it had its largest ever attendance of 70,504 for a league game against Aston Villa.
	manuxtreme.offsideref.com /oldtrafford.htm (1196 words)

	Physiology or Medicine 1926 - Presentation Speech
		It is thus that Fibiger has been and will remain a pioneer in the difficult field of cancer research.
		«To my mind», says the famous English expert on cancer, Archibald Leitch, to name only one of the numerous critical commentators on Fibiger's research, «Fibiger's work has been the greatest contribution to experimental medicine in our generation.
		He has built into the growing structure of truth something outstanding, something immortal, quod non imber edax possit diruere.» It is for this immortal research work that Fibiger is today awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for 1926.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1926/press.html (1177 words)

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