Hoe and Worthing Archive: The Chapman family

 

Philip Dennis Chapman (1866-1934), farmer, tanner, fellmonger and wool merchant, lived at Barons Hall, Fakenham, but bought Worthing Tannery in 1906.     Edmund (Ted) Crowe Chapman     (1894-1971) enlisted in the Norfolk     Regiment During WWI and received a     commission in the Berkshire     Yeomanry. In 1918 he married Hannah     (Nancy) Stubbs; they had two     daughters.        He succeeded his father running the     business and lived at the Tannery     House in Worthing. He was an     enthusiastic horseman, huntsman     and horse breeder and Clerk of the     Course at Fakenham for twenty years.     Tannery worker John Neal and the Chapmans'     daughter Alice in the Tannery yard.     Alice Chapman married Peter Gow, who     became a director of Chapmans and took the     following six photographs in the 1930s, using a     new Leica 35mm camera. Bridget Chapman, Alice's sister. Peter Gow (right) with Ted and Hannah Chapman at Tannery House, Worthing. Alice Gow in the driving seat. The car lost its canvas roof in a storm on a journey from London. The Chapmans were enthusiastic members of the West Norfolk Hunt. West Norfolk Foxhounds pack at the Tannery. The man holding his hat is Eustace Goodings, publican of the Bull at Litcham, where the hunt would meet. In front of the hut is Arthur Johnson, Huntsman from 1913 to 1946. Behind the hounds are Alice and Ted Chapman. One of the race horses bred by Ted Chapman, in front of Tannery House, Worthing. The groom is Mr Bullimore. Ted Chapman also bred prize-winning cattle – 1932.     The newspaper report of the Chapmans'     golden wedding anniversary. The West Norfolk Hunt meeting in 2007 at Manor Farm, Hoe, Peter and Alice Gow's home from 1945.