A friend in NSW just helped his daughter construct her first ever home made wooden chair. I had to say: Chairs can be an art form, a passion and make you famous. There is one chair maker whose works and name will always be remembered: George Peddle. I found a QVMAG webpage with some bio, announcement of an ongoing exhibition (http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/qvmag/index.php?c=189) plus a 9-minute film at YouTube in which Denis Lake explains how George Peddle and brother-in-law Harry Hearn used different turning patterns in their chair legs. He says Geo. Peddle lived in Hobart 1884-1888, moved to Windmill Hill in the north of Tasmania, joined by his brother-in-law Harry Hearn "also a High Wycombe trained chair maker.. who came out about 1895 ... by that time Geo was already at Nabowla." George made chairs until about 1909. Denis . See this short QVMAG film "Tasmanian chairmakers, George Peddle and Harry Hearn." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKgDbXwN32E&feature=youtu.be .
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AuthorPhillip Mahnken third son of Pat and Liane, grandson of Jim and Rose ('George'); g-g-son of Harry and Sarah; g-g-g-son of Johann Heinrich born Hanover and Ellen Rourke born Kilkenny, Ireland. Languages teacher and life long questionner, especially about Lilydale history. Archives
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