Against the Grain. The Sapperton group of craftsmen designers - ACE127.4

Swarf from steel milling; dirty factory building. Commentary notes increase in pollution as a result of mass production. Morris’s words over complaining about this. Gimson General Engineers building. Donald Gimson talks about his grandfather, Sidney, spending weekends camping in Charnwood forest, having walked the nine miles from Leicester. Countryside. Pump House and Stoneywell and Lea Cottages designed by Ernest Gimson, and built from local stone with slate or thatched roofs. Exterior and interior photographs; the houses today. Daneway House to which the craftsmen transferred after selling Pinbury back to the Bathursts. Workshops. Photographs: Peter Waals, the foreman; Alfred Bucknall, blacksmith; Norman Jewson, architect and designer. Jewson’s daughter talking about his work at Daneway; metalwork designed by Jewson; wedding to Mary Barnsley. Sapperton. Miss Jewson and Mrs Strange reminisce about life at Sapperton, and explain that the Barnsleys and Gimsons were "working gentry" and didn’t quite fit in. Photographs of family members. Ernest Barnsley’s house, modelled on Daneway. Drawings, decorative metalwork, furniture, decorative plasterwork (in Barnsley’s house) by Ernest Gimson. Ernest Gimson’s Sapperton house. Sidney Barnsley’s house; family photograph. Edward Barnsley talks about his father and his work; designs; photograph of the living room, which looks forward to the modern style.