 Hollamby was born in his parental home of 6 Wellesley Avenue in Hammersmith , West London . He was the oldest of two sons born to Ethel May Hollamby , née Kingdom ( 1899 / 1900 – 1966 ) , and Edward Thomas Hollamby ( 1893 – 1978 ) , a police constable . His primary education took place at St. Peter 's Church School , before he won a scholarship to study at a junior technical school . From there , he gained a higher education by training in architecture at the nearby Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts during the 1930s . At the college , he was inspired by the Arts and Crafts aesthetic propounded by one of his lecturers , Alwyn Waters , and through him came to take an interest in William Morris , who had been a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement in the latter part of the 19th century . At the same time , Hollamby was influenced by the modernist movement in architecture to which two of his favourite lecturers , Arthur Ling and Alex Lowe , belonged , and joined the Modern Architectural Research Group ( MARS ) . 
