Weirdness at Bumforth Manor

Please join us to enjoy the delightful weirdness of The Bumforth Manor Collection - a selection of photographs by the renowned Victorian eccentric inventor and proto-surrealist Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson.

About the Exhibition
For over five generations, the Gascoigne-Simpson family owned Bumforth Manor, a crumbling draughty pile of dubious architectural merit near Grantham in Lincolnshire. The Bumforth Manor pictures are just a few from a large number of glass plates discovered in the attic. These plates languished undiscovered, for over a hundred years in a lead-lined oak chest which bore the initials S.H.G.S. They are undoubtedly the work of Nick's Great Grandfather Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson (1839-1910), who was a disciple of William Henry Fox Talbot - widely considered to be the Father of Photography.