Building the Research about Women in Building Research

As loyal readers may recall, some while ago I did a rather boring blog that was basically just a list of some names of women scientific civil servants I had encountered in the records of the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Its merit, if any, was that some people who knew stuff about some of the women got in touch and I learnt more. Because there is always more to know.

This is a similar record, this time of women who were scientific civil servants at the Building Research Station (BRS/BRE), Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL), Fire Research Station (FRS) and Ministry of Works (MoW), and other construction-related organisations.

They were specialists in a wide range of fields, from maths and pure sciences, through various sorts of engineering, to sociology and statistics. Some achieved recognition in their own lifetimes, such as Margaret Law, others did important work but have otherwise vanished from the public record.

If your search engine has brought you here and you know ANYTHING about any of these women, or can add to the list, please get in touch.

Miss Valerie	Laws	BRE & Tropical Products Institute	1959
Mrs Barbara M	Goldstone	BRE and Fire Research Station	1976
Mrs PG	Allen	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss PJ	Arnold	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss EP	Belford	BRS/BRE	1959
Flora	Black	BRS/BRE	1950
Mrs LML	Booth	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs ME	Booth	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss EM	Brown	BRS/BRE	1926?
Miss B.	Bruen	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs ME	Butler	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs Evelyn J	Cibula	BRS/BRE	1964
Miss Margaret A	Clapp	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs VA	Coleman	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs VM	Collins	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs IVM	Daws	BRS/BRE	1964
Miss CW	Douglas	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs A	Edwards	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss EJ	Elbogen	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss RM	Filmer	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss GNA	Gibson	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss (??) Elizabeth M	Glaister	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss MJ	Gold	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs IVM	Gordon	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs AS	Greeves	BRS/BRE	1964
Miss AM	Gregg	BRS/BRE	1926?
Mrs JD	Hawkins	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs KJ	Haynes	BRS/BRE	1964
Dr Winifred Vere	Hole	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs HC	Hutchings	BRS/BRE	1964
Miss IM	Jeffery	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs JR	Lang	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs EM	Lawson	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss EA	Leighton	BRS/BRE	1926
Dr Julia	Lemessany	BRS/BRE	c.1970
Miss DA	Linsley	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs IDL	Lodge	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss NM	Macnaught	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs MM	Metcalf	BRS/BRE	1964
Elisabeth	Milroy	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss KJ	Noble	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs AA	Ogilvy	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs VK	Peachey	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs BR	Poole	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss PD	Russell	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss RA	Shipman	BRS/BRE	1964
Miss PJ	Smith	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs EM	Sobolev	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss AH	Sparrow	BRS/BRE	1964
Miss BJ	Turner	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss M.	Waltho	BRS/BRE	1964
Mrs BDF	Ward	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss Barbara Elizabeth Anne	Wheller	BRS/BRE	1959
Mrs DS	Williams	BRS/BRE	1959
Miss CJ	Wilson	BRS/BRE	1950
Miss AS	Wooding	BRS/BRE	1959
Caroline Burkett	Pettifor	FPL
Winifred N	Daxon	FRS
Wendy	Evans	FRS	1968
Christine	Eveleigh	FRS	1970
Lynda G	Griffiths	FRS	1967
Patricia	Kirsop	FRS	1969
Margaret	Law	FRS	1952
Sheila F	Nash	FRS	1968
Ann I	Pitt	FRS
Barbara Frances Wilton	Rogowski	FRS	1966
Ann I	Wadley	FRS	1968
Miss P. M.P.	Hooper	MoW	1946
Miss P.	King	MoW	1946
Miss V. G.	Stone	MoW	1946
MIss M. M.	Woodhead	MoW	1946
Barbara Ethel	Sabey	TRRL	1951
Mrs Irene T.	Barclay	yes but only in committees	n/a
Mrs Helen	Brown	yes but only in committees	n/a
Dr Margaret	Fishenden	yes but only in committees
Barbara E	Tredre	NIMR	1965