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  • Collection: Arts and Crafts

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Bernard Shaw attended a puppet show (Presumable given by William Simmonds) at Alfred Powell's home, he was disparaging of the experience - see his letter!

A fruitwood and walnut table designed by Harry Davoll
Previously Harry he had worked for ten years as a cabinet-maker in Liverpool. He started work at Sapperton at 8d per hour making furniture to Gimson's designs. Later he joined Peter Waals at his Chalford workshop, It was Waals who wrote this offer of…

Gimson and the Barnsley brothers and their workers. The back row includes Fred Orton (second from left) and Barnsley (sitting in the centre). The middle row includes Fred Gardiner (left) and Ernest Gimson (far right).
Ernest William Gimson (pronounced 'Jimson') was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers" and was as one of the most influential designers…

First Puppet Show Photo - taken at The Greenhouse, Brookside, Fovant Wiltshire in 1913
The following Article was part of the Simmonds Archive gifted to Oakridge History Group. We have been unable to track down the publisher and hope that there is no breach of copyright reproducing it here. The published article has handwritten…

Baby Faun from 'The Woodland Scene'
The following Article was part of the Simmonds Archive gifted to Oakridge History Group. We have been unable to track down the publisher and hope that there is no breach of copyright reproducing it here. The published article has handwritten…

Cheltenham Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, June 1968

William Simmonds, 1902 aged 26
Below are two views of William and Eva's lives, the first is a formal Biographical History and the second, is an extract from ''Oakridge a History' by Pat Carrick, Kay Rhodes and Juliet Shipman which focuses on their life as part of the wider…

Chalford Workshop - Ernest Smith (foreground facing right), Harry Davoll (next bench facing right) and Percy Tanner (furthest bench facing right)
Peter Walls Workshop at Chalford  by Kay Rhodes From 1919 to 1937 a group of craftsmen worked for Peter Waals in workshops in what used to be Halliday's (or Smart's) Mill at the bottom of Cowcombe Hill. Much has been written about their work,…

Alfred & Norman Bucknell at work
When Gimson started designing metalwork in about 1900 he saw some hinges that Alfred Bucknell, son of William the village blacksmith at Tunley, had made for Alfred Powell. (Architect and painter of Wedgwood pottery. Gimson and Alfred set up a forge…

Fred Gardiner at work
Fred Gardiner was born in Waterlane, one of five brothers and two sisters whose father was a builder. Fred was apprenticed to Ernest Gimson, one of the leading practitioners of the Arts and Crafts Revival movement which flourished between 1860 and…
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