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The most important interwar commercial architecture was produced by S.N. Cooke & Partners, though their work is difficult to assess. It starts with good stripped classical: No.126 Colmore Row, 1929, and the Sun
Building, Bennets Hill,
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During the 1920s and 1930s, he often worked collaboratively with the
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in Munich. The Birmingham theatre is still in use, now known as the
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Buildings by S. N. Cooke, or S. N. Cooke and Partners, include:
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St. Paul's C.E (Aided) School, Upper Holly Walk, Leamington Spa
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Sun Alliance Insurance Offices, 10 Bennets Hill, Birmingham
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St. Dunstan's Mission Church, Marlborough Road, Smethwick
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Cooke also designed the city's civic war memorial, the
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Pearl Assurance House, Corporation Street, Birmingham
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