Living on a Landing Craft c.1950 After WWII, Jock and Joan lived on a converted Infantry Landing Craft with their three children at Cubitt’s Yacht Basin by Chiswick Bridge. Around this time, Jock designed and had a house built at 10 Ham Farm Road, Ham, London. When looking to move on to a WWII Landing Craft as a house boat, Jock made a sketch of the boat to show his wife Joan. Joan, Oliver, Jock, Ross, Elspeth in their houseboat in Cubitt’s Yacht Basin. First published in Picture Post “London’s Floating Village’, 28 October 1950. Photo by Charles Hewitt. © (Licensed from Getty Images)
Mills & Allen Ltd. annual report Designers’ file copy of a client project, gifted to the Library by Andrew Haig.
Words and Buildings Words and Buildings: the art and practice of public lettering is published in London by The Architectural Press.
Begins teaching at Chelsea School of Art A part-time role through to 1958. Here he meets Margaret Calvert who is studying illustration.
Starts his own business In 1952 Jock starts his own business. By 1956 he is renting a small office above a garage at 3, Old Barrack Yard, Knightsbridge.
‘Pan African Railways’ brief to Royal College of Arts students This important brief asks students to design a luggage-labelling system to be read by railway staff of multiple languages between South Africa and Egypt.