Ernest and Sidney Barnsley were Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...

 furniture designers and makers associated with Ernest Gimson

Ernest Gimson

Ernest William Gimson was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers"...

. In the early 20th century they had workshops at Sapperton, Gloucestershire

Sapperton, Gloucestershire

Sapperton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire in England, about west of Cirencester. It is most famous for Sapperton canal tunnel and its connection with the Cotswold Arts and Crafts Movement in the early 20th century. It has a population of 424.The parish...

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Starting in 1909, they collaborated in the design, construction and furnishing of Rodmarton Manor

Rodmarton Manor

Rodmarton Manor is a large country house, in Rodmarton, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, built for the Biddulph family. It is a Grade I listed building. It was constructed in 1909-1929 in an Arts and Crafts style, to a design by Ernest Barnsley. After Barnsley's death in 1925, it was completed by...

, a work completed by Ernest's son-in-law, Norman Jewson

Norman Jewson

Norman Jewson was an English architect-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement, who practiced in the Cotswolds. He was a distinguished, younger member of the group which had settled in Sapperton, Gloucestershire, a feudal village in rural southwest England, under the influence of Ernest Gimson...

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Sidney's son Edward continued the family tradition.

They were also associated with the designers and makers Gordon Russell

Sydney Gordon Russell

Sir Gordon Russell was an English designer, craftsman and educationist.He came under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement from 1904 after his father had moved to Broadway in the Cotswolds to be hotelier at the Lygon Arms, through the Guild of Handicraft, the community of metalworkers,...

 and the Dutchman Peter Waals

Peter Waals

Peter Waals , also known as Peter van der Waals, was a Dutch cabinet maker associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.-Arts and Crafts:...

,or van der Waals.

324 Hagley Road

In January 2011, controversy arose over the granting, by Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council

The Birmingham City Council is the body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974. It is the most populated local authority in the United Kingdom with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 Birmingham...

 of permission to the Extra Care Charitable Trust to demolish 324 Hagley Road (52.4732°N 1.9609°W), built in 1895, and the last surviving house by Ernest Barnsley in that city. Although not listed, the building and others affected lie within the Barnsley Road Conservation Area

Conservation Area (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, the term Conservation Area nearly always applies to an area considered worthy of preservation or enhancement because of its special architectural or historic interest, "the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance," as required by the Planning ...

. The Victorian Society

The Victorian Society

The Victorian Society is the national charity responsible for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts in Britain....

 wrote to the Government Office of the West Midlands to request that the Secretary of State

Secretary of State

Secretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government....

 call in for his own determination the application to build a retirement village of 240 flats on the site, in Edgbaston

Edgbaston

Edgbaston is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Edgbaston ward and the wards of Bartley Green, Harborne and Quinton....

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Barnsley Road is named after Ernest.