 | Bourne Civic Society
Heritage Centre/Baldocks Mill
21 South Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9LY. Telephone: 01778 422775
Registered with the Civic Trust
Registered Charity 512420
President Baroness Willoughby de'Eresby |
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| The Charles Worth Collection |  | | CHARLES WORTH (1825-1895) was born in this town, the son of a local solicitor who lived at Wake House in North Street which survives today as a community centre. He left Bourne when still a boy to seek his fortune in Paris where he became a world renowned designer of women's fashion and the founder of haute couture. His reputation was such that the French government awarded him the Legion of Honour and when he died, 2,000 people, including the President of the Republic, attended his funeral. | Picture and Charles Worth History kindly reproduced from the publication
"A Portrait of Bourne"
Written, researched and Photographed by Rex Needle |
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