ABSTRACT
It is over 90 years since Fry first practised architecture, whilst Drew was still active and involved in the profession less than 20 years ago. Their lives seem very close to the present and yet they also span into the distant past beyond where living memory can reach them. Fry and Drew experienced some extraordinary times: theirs was an age of empires, unfathomable conflict, brutal poverty, social flux inherited from Victorian manufacturing, the emergence of the Welfare State, and its equally rapid demise. They worked during a time of extraordinary change, especially for architecture where so much of what was thought eternal, was discarded and dismissed. Politically, they witnessed the major transition that transformed Britain in the early-mid twentieth century, whilst inadvertently managing to benefit from many of the political decisions and hard-won liberations of overseas territories.
