Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer. John Joseph Fleming, who, according to his 1911 census return, was born in Waterford in 1874 or 1875, worked in the office of his father, MICHAEL JOSEPH FLEMING MICHAEL JOSEPH FLEMING , borough surveyor for Waterford City, from about 1881 and was resident engineer for the city's main drainage scheme.(2) He succeeded his father as borough surveyor in 1910(3) and remained in the post until 1922 or later. At the time of the 1911 census he was unmarried and living with his widowed mother and sister.

ICEI: elected associate member, 7 January 1903;(4) name no longer appears in list of members for 1924.
Surveyors' Institute: associate member by 1905.(5)

Addresses: Mount View, John's Hill, Waterford, 1902;(6) 44 Lady Lane, 1906;(7) 12 The Mall, 1910-1919;(8)  52 John's Hill, waterford, 1911.

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References



(1) ICEI admissions applications, III, 164.
(2) IB 47, 30 Dec 1905, 945 (or 958?).
(3) IB 52, 30 Apr 1910, 294.
(4) TICEI 30 (1902-1903), 32.
(5) IB 47, 30 Dec 1905, 944 or 957.
(6) See note 1, above.
(7) IB 48, 19 May 1906, 406.
(8) IB 52, 15 Oct 1910, 644; 61, 17 May 1919, 248.


7 work entries listed in chronological order for FLEMING, JOHN JOSEPH


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Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, DRAINAGE
Date: 1900
Nature: Main drainage. JJF resident engineer, with J.C. Bretland as consulting engineerand M.J. Fleming as engineer.
Refs: IB 47, 30 Dec 1905, 945 or 958

Building: CO. WATERFORD, TRAMORE, SEWERAGE
Date: 1906
Nature: Pumps, suction gas plant &c. at filter beds.
Refs: IB 48, 2 Jun 1906, 457

Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, PARNELL STREET, CENTRAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
Date: 1906
Nature: New. For Central Technical Instruction Committee.  Architects invited to compete for design of same, May 1904. Commenced 26 Apr 1905. Opened 20 Sep 1906. Builder: Patrick Costen, Waterford. Cost: £3,783.
Refs: Irish Times, 18 May 1904;  IB 47, 26 Aug,23 Sep 1905, 594,676; 48, 19 May,28 Jul,20 Oct 1906, 406,606,837(illus.)

Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, HOUSES (045)
Date: 1910
Nature: Workmen's dwellings for Corporation.
Refs: IB 52, 15 Oct 1910, 644

Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, SMITH'S LANE, HOUSES (019)
Date: 1917
Nature: Workmen's dwellings.
Refs: IB 59, 20 Jan 1917, 39

Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, HOUSES
Date: 1919
Nature: 3-roomed houses.
Refs: IB 51, 13 Nov 1909, 726

Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, HOUSES (024)
Date: 1919
Nature: 24 4-roomed working-class houses.
Refs: IB 61, 17 May 1919, 248

Author Title Date Details
Fleming, John Joseph 'The Waterford Main Drainage' 1905;1907 IB 47, 30 Dec 1905, 944 and/or 957; TICEI 33 (1905-1907), 22-29.