1961-1971 Educated Kings School, Gloucester.
Chorister Gloucester Cathedral
1971-2006 Bruton Knowles
1971 Agricultural and General Surveying Assistant 
1972 Saleroom Porter
1974 Cataloguing and Valuation Assistant
1976 Junior cataloguing assistant to Arthur Negus
1979 Assistant Auctioneer within practice
1980 Saleroom Manager and Auctioneer
1989 Managed and promoted The Summerfield Sale (at that time, the largest ever auction)
1990 to present Lecturer to Professional bodies on Art & Antiques, regular broadcasts on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
1991 Negotiated the largest porcelain sale ever recorded, through Christie’s  
1994 Appointed Head of Art and Antiques 
1999 Appointed Bruton Knowles Partner and Associate of the Society of Fine  Art Auctioneers and Valuers
2000  Achieved World Record for Satinwood Furniture at provincial sale
2001 Achieved World Record for a Lowry painting at provincial sale
2003 5-day sale of the Property of the late John Parry
2006 Founded Simon Chorley Art & Antiques Ltd with new co-directors and  original team from Bruton Knowles Art & Antiques division. Relocated office   and saleroom to Prinknash Abbey
2007 January Inaugural auction in new Prinknash Abbey saleroom
2007 to present Regular fine art and antiques auctions, including the four-day auction of   the Shambles Museum contents in 2009, the residual contents of Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill and Pigeon House, Southam and The Orpheus Pavement in 2010.
2010  Opening of a second saleroom at Prinknash