Tom HERON

Tom Milner HERON

Father of Patrick HERON and friend of Alec George WALKER, who encouraged him to move from Leeds with his family in 1925 to take over the management of Cryséde, the fabric printing and dressmaking company first opened in Newlyn some years before.  Heron managed the Cryséde factory on the Island in St Ives from 1926. A photograph of Heron watching Keith ROSS carving a printing block in the Crysede workshops may be found in Berriman (p52).

 

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Manager of Cryséde 

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misc further info

 

references

Berriman (1986) Arts and Crafts in Newlyn 1890-1930

Bird (2008) St Ives Artists: Place and Time;

Crysede history and references to Alec and Kay WALKER

Pearl-Binns and Heron (2001) Rebel and Sage: A Biography of Tom Heron 1890-1983 (Bishop Auckland)