Charles Baker, Bath furniture maker

Reference Number: PP/2407
Level of Description: Item
Title: Charles Baker, Bath furniture maker
Date: 1947
Extent: Pages: 1
Description: Comprises the following items:

1. A Somerset Craftsman. Photocopy of the 'Correspondence' section of Country Life, May 2nd, 1947 which contains a letter about and photograph of Mr Charles Baker, furniture maker of Chippendale House, Wells Road, Bath, who died in 1932 aged 92, at work in his workshop. Charles Baker formed a subsidiary company to Bath Cabinet Makers in 1910

2. Bath Cabinet makers: Orders lead to working at weekends (Photocopy of a 1983 newspaper article on the business success of Bath Cabinet Makers in the early 1980s. It also gives a short history of the company and mentions Mr Charles Baker of Chippendale House, Wells Road, Bath, who formed a subsidiary company of the firm in 1910
Personal Name: Baker, Charles, 1840-1932, furniture maker
Subject: Craftsmen
Furniture makers