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- 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. - 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 ? - 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 - Workforce c1900's - before WW1
Workforce c1900's - before WW1.
Sidney Miles, (bottom RH) was Killed in action 5 June 1918, aged 41, and is named on the Penn Street War Memorial. - W B Hearne & Office Girls c 1930's
W B Hearne & Office Girls c 1930's - Penn Street Factory c 1930's
Penn Street Factory c 1930's - Mosquito Main Wing
Mosquito Main Wing under construction. During WWII the Penn Street factory was given over completely to making parts for the De Havilland Mosquito. The Lindsay Avenue, HW, site also made plane parts.