Barnsley family

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  • Professional services Architecture, interior design, & landscape & garden design services
  • Professional services Industrial & domestic goods design services exc fashion
  • Luxury / consumer goods production Wooden furniture production inc upholstery, mattress, mirror, etc

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Traced origins in business to (Arthur) Ernest Barnsley, 1863-1926, and Sidney Barnsley, 1865-1926, both architects and furniture designers and makers, heavily influence by the Arts and Crafts Movement and sons of a prosperous Birmingham builder connected with John Barnsley & Sons. With others, especially Ernest Gimson, set up as cabinet designers and makers in c1891, initially via Kenton & Co, and subsequently moved to the Cotswolds, close to Cirencester. Sidney's son, (William) Edward Barnsley, 1900-87, also set up as a furniture maker, at Froxfield, Hampshire, in 1920s

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