Bill Thornton & Charley Downer

Bill Thornton and Charley Downer joined the Guild of Handicraft in East London as two young blacksmiths. They came to Campden in 1902 and when the Guild went into liquidation in 1908 they stayed on, making ornamental ironwork of high quality for architects and for direct sale, until just after the Second World War. They were famously grumpy towards each other. Thornton died in 1948 and Downer in 1961.