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Michael Hammill: 2019-2020 Current Master or the Guild

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Michael is a 64 year old Chartered Surveyor, living and working in York as a property developer. He came to York in 1986 and his first job was with Stansfield’s Estate Agents as a surveyor. After a few years he joined Chessingham Estates as Development Director which developed several large commercial developments in York, including The Kings Pool which is still York’s largest office development.
 
After that he formed his own property development company, Yorbuild Ltd, and through joint ventures with others built the 100 bedroom Piccadilly Hotel 53 (recently sold to Holiday Inn), 410 student units for St Johns College, Grade A offices at Heworth Green, GP Surgeries and shops. More recently he has concentrated on the luxury end of the housing sector having built and lived in iconic Zero House on Clifton Green, completed The Kings Guinea a large new house which has just sold for £1.8m and The Black House in Fulford which will be appearing in a new TV series.
Michael is happily married to Erica and has two daughters, Emma and Sophie. His interests are family, design and staying healthy. To this end in July he will be cycling from Lands’ End to John O’Groats.  

Paul Deamer: 2018-2019

​On the 24 April 2018 Paul Deamer was installed as the new master of the York guild of building at there A.G.M. held at Bedern Hall, York.
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I started my building career as a fresh faced 16 year old when i signed my indentures and started my 4 year apprenticeship with the Dept of the environment { D.O.E.} during that period I worked on Fountains Abbey, Kirkham priory and many more, gaining my city & guilds craft and advanced.

I have continued to develop and achieved several additional qualifications, Cert / Dip site management, Btec / Hnc Heritage management, Preparing to teach lifelong sector and my T.A.Q.A. Assessors Award.

During my 40+ years in the construction industry I have worked on Abby's, Priory's, Church's, Cathedrals, New builds, Barn conversions, Roofing and much more.     

Alan Mitchell: 2017-2018

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On 25th April 2017, Alan Mitchell was installed as Master of the York Guild of Building.

With over thirty years practical engineering experience, Alan commenced his career with a civil engineering contractor, undertaking pipeline and tunnelling construction within the UK. He then progressed onto steel work design; working for some of the country’s largest fabricators and spent five years with a structural engineering software company, in the design and analysis section.
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He established maltech in 2000, to provide consulting civil and structural engineering services for both domestic and commercial clients; these now include Diocesan boards, Charitable Trusts and Estates. The consultancy handles a variety of projects: from surveys and simple beam designs to large scale buildings and total building solutions, where maltech has been responsible for the whole design, including project management.
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Alan’s skills avoid ‘over-engineered’ proposals, resulting in attractive and economical schemes for the client. As a result, maltech has worked on specialist steel detailing for the iconic Sage Centre, Heathrow T5 as well as buildings in Iceland, Ukraine and the Philippines. 


Sally Walker: 2016 - 2017 


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Born in north London the same year as the York Guild of Building was founded Sally qualified as an architect in1980 and was elected as a Corporate Member of the RIBA. Sally has worked in primarily in the UK and settled in North Yorkshire with her first full time job at British Rail Architects 1978-1989. Sally was Research Fellow at the University ofYork from 1992 - 1997 developing post-occupancy building studies and building user research at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the King’s Manor.

In 1996 Sally set up Native Architects a practice specialising in buildings with a light CO2 footprint. More recently Sally achieved a Masters in Building Archaeology at the University of York Department of Archaeology where Sally also contributes to the Conservation Studies Masters Course on the conservation of C20 Heritage. Her architectural practice and academic work led to RIBA Conservation Accreditation.

In addition to her historic buildings expertise Sally has led the practice to achieve an exemplary standard in the design and construction of environmentally sustainable buildings that respect their context. Winner of numerous awards Native Architects won their second York Design Award and John Shannon Conservation Award in 2015 for work in central York. Sally was elected a Court member in the York Guild of Building in 2014 chairing the Programme Committee and Senior Warden in 2015.


Outside of work Sally enjoys gardening, is an amateur painter, visits the Southern Hebrides regularly where she and husband Chris have built a low carbon house in hempcrete. Sally is member of The Twentieth Century Society which exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards, a member of York Artworkers and the Hagges Wood Trust, raising tomorrow’s ancient woodland. Sally has three grown up sons, three Border terriers and chickens. In 2016 Native will celebrate 20 years of innovative architectural practice inYork. 

In May 2016 Sally was installed as Master of York Guild of Building. This one year post follows a two year supervisory period working in the Court of Assistants.


Past Masters 1954 - 2017


1954 & 1955 Sir Peter Shepherd, C.B.E
1956 Mr E. Firth
1957 Mr J. Wilson
1958 Mr L. Whiteman

1959 Mr W.H. Shouksmith
1960 Mr D.A. Leckenby
1961 Mr D. Smith
1962 Rev. G. Dickinson
1963 Mr D.B. Holman
1964 Mr R.T. Fawdington
1965 Mr J.K. Keighley
1966 Mr K. Denham

1967 Mr I.V. Winduss
1968 Mr Mr J. Gawthorpe
1969 Mr J.L. Cable
1970 Mr S.J. Steel
1971 Mr M.E. Moisley
1972 Mr L.E. Watson
1973 Mr R.L. Flude
1974 Mr H.E. Langham
1975 Mr J. Silk
1976 Mr J.R. Hargreaves
1977 Mr J.R. Legge
1978 Mr E.M. Driffield
1979 Mr K. Groom
1980 Mr A.V. Heppell
1981 Mr D.K. Davidson
1982 Mr G.S. Edwards
1983 Mr W.H. Bonney
1984 Mr B.J. Atkinson
1985 Mr E. Howland

1986 Mr C.M. Foster
1987 Mr G.G.F. Tulley
1988 Mr J.D. Bellerby
1989 Mr D.F. Parker
1990 Mr G.N. Blades
1991 Mr K. Garland
1992 Mr D.H. Baker
1993 Mr P. Mawer
1994 Mr R. Thompson
1995 Mr A.J. Neal
1996 Mr P.A. Summers
1997 Mr N.R. Shouksmith
​1998 Mr T.B. Wilson
1999 Mr J.R. Niklaus
2000 Mr R. Parkin
2001 Mr C. Young
2002 Prof. P. Dale
2003 Mr A. Burley
2004 Mr E. Howland
2005 Mr P. Deamer
2006 Mr S. Bielby
2007 Mr J. Oakley
2008 Mr A. Garland
2009 Mr S. Cluderay
2010 Mr S. Owen
2011 Mr D. Wilson
2012 Mr J.R. Niklaus
2013 Mrs Rebecca Thompson
2014 Mr N.R. Shouksmith
2015 Rev. Chris Cullwick
2016 Mrs Sally Walker
​2017 Mr Alan Mitchell  
2018 Mr Paul Deamer
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