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Let's Get Down to Business: Jayne Worrall, the Bull Hotel
12/07/21
JAYNE WORRALL is the licensee of the Bull Hotel, a 15th century former coaching Inn in Wargrave high street. Although born in Chiswick, she has spent most of her life in Berkshire. A dog lover, she walks a close friend’s whippets, Willow and Olive, ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Nicola Chapman, Elements hairdressing
29/06/20
NICOLA CHAPMAN is the proprietor of Elements, the hairdressing salon in Bell Street, Henley. She was born in Perivale, Middlesex, and went to school in Iver. From the age of 13 she worked on Saturdays in her aunt’s hairdressing salon in Langley. ...
Lets Get Down to Business: Nick English
29/01/18
NICK ENGLISH and his brother Giles founded Bremont in Henley in 2002. The company is now among the top 10 chronometer manufacturers in the world. He lives in Bix with his wife Catherine and their children, Elodie and twins Capucine and Euan. In ...
14/11/19
ANNIE HALL is the owner of brand design business Phase Two. Born and bred in Buckinghamshire, Annie didn’t enjoy school but did well in art and English. At age 16, she went to Amersham and Wycombe College to study art, design and graphics. ...
Let's Get Down to Business: David Haimes
07/02/20
DAVID HAIMES is the proprietor of the Henley Coaching Partnership (business and executive coaching), based in Bell Street. He was brought up on a farm near Stratford-upon-Avon. He went to Coventry University, where he graduated with a ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Philip Booth
27/08/18
PHILIP BOOTH is a Henley estate agent with his own firm. His family moved to Henley when he was 11 and he attended Gillotts School and The Henley College. His first job was with Simmons & Lawrence and he was the Henley branch manager ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Will Hamilton, Hamilton Associates
14/01/19
WILL HAMILTON is the owner of Hamilton Associates, a consultancy which he set up five years ago. Born in Kent, his family moved to Bristol when he was one. He became a boarder at St Edward’s School, Oxford, followed by Kingston ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Caroline O'Connor, Phyllis Court Club
10/09/18
CAROLINE O’Connor is commercial director of Phyllis Court Club in Henley. Born in Holyport, near Maidenhead, she attended Newlands Girls’ School in the town and captained the hockey and netball teams. She was also a keen horse ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Opinder Liddar, LAPD Architects
30/11/20
OPINDER LIDDAR is a director and co-founder of LAPD architects which has offices in Henley and Abingdon. Originally from Kent, he decided he wanted to become an architect when he was nine years old as a result of watching ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Jo Harris, Henley School of Art
03/06/19
JO HARRIS is the proprietor of the Henley School of Art in Hart Street. She was born in London but spent most of her teenage years in Wargrave. She studied at City & Guilds of London Art School before living in a number ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Ryan Irving, Riweb
21/03/22
RYAN IRVING is director of Riweb, a Henley digital agency. He was born in Henley 37 years ago and studied web development at the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough (so he could be closer to his beloved Newcastle ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Paul Carpenter, Henley Computer Repairs
11/02/19
PAUL CARPENTER is the proprietor of Henley Computer Repairs in Hart Street, Henley. He was born in Stonor and went to Rupert House School in Henley followed by Presentation College in Reading. He then studied ...
Let's get down to business... with Steepal's Paul Bradley
23/04/18
PAUL BRADLEY (pictured) and his business partner Steve Sampeys are the proprietors of Steepal, the kitchen and bathroom showroom in Reading Road, Henley. They became friends in their twenties when they lived ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Sarah Posey, Henley River and Rowing Museum
23/03/20
SARAH POSEY is the director of Henley’s River & Rowing Museum. She was born and brought up in Hampstead before reading for a degree in anthropology at Cambridge University. Her career has been in the ...
Let's Get Down to Business: Simon Lawson, Lawson's Goldsmiths
01/07/19
SIMON LAWSON is the proprietor of Lawson’s Goldsmiths in Duke Street, Henley. He was born and bred in Stratford-upon- Avon and attended the same school that William Shakespeare went to around 400 ...
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