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Saffron Waldon Borough Council sought long-term tenants for the building in 1969. [11] Essex County Council agreed to acquire the building in 1972 and commissioned an extensive programme of works to convert the building for use as a county library and arts centre: [ 12 ] the building was officially re-opened for that purpose on 11 June 1975. [ 9 ]
The Fry Art Gallery is an art gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex. Recognised as an Accredited Museum by Arts Council England, [ 1 ] it displays work by artists of national significance who lived or worked in North West Essex during the twentieth century and after. [ 2 ]
It is located in Museum Street within the town of Saffron Walden, set in an enclosed grass meadow near the ruins of the 12-century Walden Castle. The museum's collections cover ancient cultures, archaeology, ceramics and glass, costumes and textiles, geology, furniture and woodwork, social and local history, natural history, and world cultures ...
George Stacey Gibson was born in Saffron Walden, Essex on 20 July 1818, the only child of Wyatt George Gibson (1790–1862) and Deborah, daughter of George Stacey of Alton, Hampshire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was a nephew of Jabez Gibson .
Saffron Walden is a market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, 12 miles (19 km) north of Bishop's Stortford, 15 miles (24 km) south of Cambridge and 43 miles (69 km) north of London.
He enjoyed painting and, late in life, he built the Fry Art Gallery (1856), in Saffron Walden. [2] They had two children: Elizabeth Pease Gibson (1830-1870). She married the Quaker lawyer, politician and philanthropist Lewis Fry (1832-1921) Francis Edward Gibson (1831-1862). He died of apoplexy in Florence, Italy.
On his death in 1862, he left £5,000 to build a hospital in Saffron Walden. It was built on London Road and the architect was William Beck, and it opened in September 1866. His son George Stacey Gibson was elected treasurer. Saffron Walden General Hospital closed in 1988 and was converted into offices for Uttlesford District Council. [2]
The discovery in the parish registers of Saffron Walden of the entry of the birth on 14 March 1647 of Robert Winstanley (a nephew of William and a younger brother of Henry Winstanley) has led to the assumption that he, rather than his kinsman William Winstanley, was the writer of Poor Robin's works, but it is very improbable that the almanacs ...