Percival Alvin Branche is recorded as travelling from Port of Spain, Trinidad, to the UK in September 1953, listed as a civil servant for the British Guiana government. He returned to British Guiana (now Guyana) in February 1954 but was soon back in the UK again, enrolling in September 1956 for the six-month post-graduate course at the Architectural Association’s Department of Tropical Architecture. During his studies, he was featured in an article in the Civil and Military Gazette, visiting an asbestos factory near London with two other students, Muzarul Islam and Martin Frishman. Following completion of the course, Branche returned once more to Guyana and is recorded in 1962 as working for the Architect’s Office of the Public Works Department in Georgetown.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• The National Archives, London, England, UK; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Inwards Passenger Lists; Class: Bt26; Piece: 1302; Item: 172
• The National Archives, London, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-183733
• The National Archives, London, England, UK; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Inwards Passenger Lists; Class: Bt26; Piece: 1364; Item: 42
• ‘Studying in Britain’, The Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore), 4th April, 1957, p7
• RIBA Journal, 1962, Vol. 69, p21