by claredelatorre | 15 Jul, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Every year steam enthusiasts from all over the country trundle slowly along rural roads (some, literally travel for weeks) to Much Marcle, near Ledbury and however often one has visited, every year it is a joy to see these wonderful feats of engineering in full steam....
by claredelatorre | 13 Jun, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
Following in a long tradition of meaningful three dimensional signs, we have just put in place our new High Street sign. Before everyone could read and write, people relied on such signs to indicate trades. Tinsmiths originally had a very large kettle (now in Ledbury...
by claredelatorre | 9 Jun, 2011 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Tinsmiths Sewing Rooms Cartridge Pleat Heading in York Linen in Red Tinsmiths’ sewing room have developed a new curtain heading, referred to as a “cartridge pleat”. This neat single pleat is most useful for large printed designs as is takes very...
by claredelatorre | 23 May, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
If you are in the Ledbury area, a truly amazing place with some very unreal qualities is Puzzlewood in nearby, Forest of Dean. The site of ancient iron ore extraction, the geology is quite fascinating. Deep ravines with their own eco-system and flora and precipitous...
by claredelatorre | 12 May, 2011 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
Ledbury is beginning to hum with preparations for 2011’s Poetry Festival. For Nick Alexander’s Talking Wall, (the next event at Tinsmiths), printer, Martin Clark is well on the way to a “wall’s worth” of large poem posters to plaster our...
