HJ Berry: Rare chairs offered free-of-charge to someone with a special conenction to Britain's oldest chair maker
"I have inherited that ethos and I thought it would be nice if these chairs went to someone who wouldn't normally be able to afford them and who was in some way connected to H J Berry."Geraldine’s father – a well-known cartographer, historian, County Councillor and owner of Swarbricks of Ormskirk – bought the chairs in 1961 from the factory in Kirk Mill, Chipping.
She said: “They were very fashionable at the time and we've had them all of our lives. They were our everyday chairs and so they've been there for Christmas dinners and birthday parties and everything else."When we were clearing my Dad's house out I found a copy of a letter he'd sent to H J Berry's asking if he could buy another six matching chairs, as he'd made a 12-seater table.
Mr Swarbrick moved the chairs from Scarisbrick to Ormskirk, and upon his death, they moved to Geraldine's house in Buckinghamshire.She is offering the chairs to the right person free-of-charge, but would ask that the transportation costs are covered.
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