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Tom Burberry, a horse and an artist: A Barry Shurlock feature


IT S EASY to forget that the horse was hugely important to many people well into the last century.
In his 70 s, the clothing pioneer and entrepreneur Thomas Burberry – known to his friends as Old Tom – rode every day between his business in Basingstoke and his home in Hook. He only stopped after a serious fall.
Horses were second nature to him: he had grown up on a family farm near Dorking in Surrey. His namesake father was steward to the Duke of Norfolk. In his early years in Basingstoke, he lived in a house call The Mount, in Bounty Road (now the Conservative Club), a substantial dwelling with stabling for six horses – as well as many bedrooms and several acres of land. ....

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