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- Timber wagon 1940's (SWOP)
Looking N, a view of timber arriving at Dancer and Hearne's factory next to the Hit or Miss PH, 1940's - Martin Haswell Workshop 2022
The same view of the Factory in 2022, now home to Martin Haswell's Handmade Bespoke Furniture Design Studio and Workshop. . - Works 1950's
Penn Street Works, c.1950 - Stacking wood, Penn Street, 1944
Stacking wood, Penn Street, 1944 - JT Hearne? c.1930
JT Hearne? c.1930 - Penn Street Chair Shop, c.1964
Penn Street Chair Shop, c.1964 - Chairs drying, c.1958
Chairs drying, c.1958 - Chair shop at Penn Street C1950s.
Chair shop at Penn Street C1950s. - Screwing plywood strim to Mosquito Wing
Screwing plywood trim to Mosquito Wing. Note women on wartime work working with the men. - W Hearne\\\'s original shed 1840 behind the Hit or Miss.
William Hearne a chair maker married Eliza Taylor, and in the 1860s they took over as licensees of The Hit and Miss. William started making chairs in a little shed at the back, it was demolished in about 1953. - WB Hearne and Local Businessmen
Tom Parslow, ? Pursey, W B Hearne, Bill Wright, Bill Randall, J Wright. Photo taken at top of New Road 1909/10. Tom Parslow’s father had Penn Street Farm, the family moved to Mop End and Tom’s son sold it a few years ago. Bill Wright kept The Squirrel. Bill Randall started the Amersham Bus Co. D - Workforce c1900's-key
Workforce c1900's Key: - Dancer and Hearne Holmer Green
Dancer and Hearne, Factory Street (now Orchard Way), Holmer Green - C1888 workforce outside Hit or Miss
c.1888 workforce posed outside the Hit or Miss. William Hearne died 1876, and Eliza re-married to Sam Dancer, the origin of Dancer & Hearne. Sam Dancer in bowler hat is at extreme right, the girl third from right on back row, is his daughter Alice Minnie. - First Dancer and Hearne Lorry C1924
Cecil Hearne, Mr Gutteridge, Fred Hearne. C1924. First Dancer & Hearne lorry C.1924 – a Thorneycroft from Basingstoke cost £250. Mr Gutteridge was a chauffeur and was employed as no one else could drive a lorry at that time. - Bench Men at Penn Street 1910
B.Lacey, E.Meeks, A.Hatch, W.B.Hearne, O.Wingrove. Taken 1910 they were the bench men at Penn Street – not to be confused with the chair makers! - Bench worker, A Wingrove
Bench worker, A Wingrove ? - Chair made for the Furniture Exhibition 1934.
Chair made for the Furniture Exhibition 1934. It was for many years on the roof of Dancer & Hearne Fairmeadow factory in West Wycombe road. Mr Bunce on the left and Eric Hearne on the right. - Bandmill at Penn Street
Bandmill at Penn Street. Wilfy Stevens on the right - First bandmill installed at Penn Street
First bandmill installed at Penn Street. W. Stevens, M. Stevens, Cecil (AC) Hearne, W B Hearne, F A Hearne, ? Burrows