COCKRILL, Harold Woodruff (1879-1965) was born at Gorleston, Co. Norfolk, England on 16 November 1879 and articled under his father W.B. Cockrill from 1896 to 1903. He studied at the Great Yarmouth School of Art then moved to South Africa where he served as chief assistant to the Johannesburg firm of J.E. & A.E. Till, Architects, from 1903 to 1905. He then worked as chief draftsman in the architectural department of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Ltd. and returned to England in 1907 to take the post of Clerk of Works for the Great Yarmouth Electric Tramway Corp. He emigrated to Canada in late 1908 and arrived in Vancouver where he found work as assistant to John Helyar (in 1908-09), with W.M. Thornton (in 1909-10) and as assistant in charge of the Vancouver office of Maclure & Fox (in 1910-14). During this period he took on private commissions under his own name and later worked as a draftsman in the City Engineer's office at Vancouver from 1916 to 1920. No references to his work after 1925 can be found. He died in North Vancouver on 21 December 1965 (death notice in The Sun (Vancouver), 22 Dec. 1965, 32; inf. Architectural Inst. of British Columbia; D. Luxton, Building The West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 458, 496).
(list of works extracted from records of the A.I.B.C. Members files)
NORTH VANCOUVER, residence of Mr. Wilson, 6th Street East, 1910
VANCOUVER, stores and flats for Yuen Chong, Vernon Drive, 1911-12
VANCOUVER, rooming house to Yuen Chong, Pender Street, 1911-12
NORTH VANCOUVER, residence for C. Sharpe, 19th Street Est, 1912
POINT GREY, residence for J.B. Johnston, 1917
NORTH VANCOUVER, residence for W. Haskin, Upper Keith Road, 1920-21
NORTH VANCOUVER, residence for Roy Powell, Lonsdale Avenue, 1920-21
BURNABY, residence for H.A. Goddard, 1920-21