Dancer and Hearne Photo Gallery
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Penn Street Gallery
25 Images
C.1888 workforce posed outside the Hit or Miss. William Hearne died 1876 and Eliza remarried to Sam Dancer, the origin of 'Dancer and Hearne' Sam Dancer in bowler hat is extreme right, the girl, third from right, back row, is his daughter Alice Minnie.
Workforce c.1900'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.
Chair makers at Penn Street, 1910. Sidney Miles ( No.8) was died in WW1 and his name is on the Penn Street War Memorial.
Tom Parslow?, ? Pursey, WB Hearne, Bill Wright, Bill Randall, J Wright. Photo taken at top of New Road 1909/10. To Parslow's father had Penn Street farm, the family moved to Mop End and Tom's sold it a few years ago. Bill Wright kept the Squirrel PH, Bill Randall started to Amersham Bus Company.
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.
Dancer and Hearne, Holmer Green, Factory Street (now Orchard Way)
Cecil Hearne, Mt Gutteruidge, Fred Hearne with First Dancer and Hearne Lorry C1924 - a Thorneycroft from Basingstoke cost £250. Mr Gutteridge was employed as chauffeur, as no-one else could drive a lorry at that time.
J.T. Hearne? c.1930
First Bandmill installed at Penn Street
First Bandmill installed at Penn Street. W Stevens, M. Stevens, Cecil (AC) Hearne, WB Hearne, FA Hearne, ? Burrows.
Bench Worker, A Wingrove?
Giant Chair made for the British Industries Fair, Olympia and White City, 1934
WB Hearne and Office Girls, c.1930's
Penn Street factory, 1930's
WW2 Harvesting at Penn Street
Mosquito Main Wing under construction. During WW2 the Penn Street factory was given over completely to making parts for the De Havilland Mosquito. The Lindsay Avenue factory in High Wycombe also made aircraft parts, as did many other High Wycombe furniture factories.
WW2, Screwing plywood trim to Mosquito wing, Lindsay Avenue?
Timber Delivery, Penn Street, 1940's
Team of 5 men stacking wood planks in timber-yard of Dancer and Hearne Bros Ltd, Penn St, c.1944
Penn Street factory, c.1950
Chairs suspended on a conveyor system, probably for varnishing and drying of the frame, in Dancer and Hearne’s factory, Penn St, Amersham. 5 Aug 1958
View of men engaged in mass production chair-making operations, with chairs suspended from a conveyor belt system. Penn Street, Amersham. Oct 1964
Chairs stacked in warehouse, Penn Street?
The Dancer and Hearne factory at Penn Street today ... Martin Haswell's furniture workshop