The Idler is available in a number of different styles and colour combinations. We have gathered pictures of the Idler in different situations to help you choose your colour and if you click on any of the pictures a larger image will be displayed giving greater detail.
We very much enjoy hearing customers' stories of childhood memories from summers past spent on their old family swing seats. If you have any photos of such halcyon times and don't mind being 'published' we would love to hear from you!
Alice Ashley on a Green Swing Seat
1937 - Donald Towner
Oil on canvas - 76 x 64 cm
Hampstead Museum
Winston Churchill
On the Pink Terrace at Chartwell
c1951:
Emma Soames on Winstons's knee,
Elizabeth Durrant
Broadstairs
1984
Winston Churchill and with Emma Soames on his knee - c1951
A swing seat from the 1950s - as good as the day it was first made! - Mr & Mrs Archer
Peter Rigby on his parent's swing seat (a customer) - 1940
Frances Powell's sons and cousins on her swing seat bought for her Grand Mother on the 3rd of October 1950 for her 60th birthday.
Frances Powell's swing seat - same people - 1997 (the swing seat is now over 60 years old)!
Elizabeth Durrant and her brothers - 1971 - on the Idlers daddy
A brochure from 1910 Page 1
A brochure from 1910 Page 2
A brochure from 1910 Page 3
Elizabeth Durrant's brothers on her grand father's swing seat - 1975
Eunice Fox (a customer) - her grandmother with grandchildren - 1977 (the swing seat was bought in 1936 as a wedding present!)
Diane Milner (2010) on her grandfather's swing seat - bought in 1910