by Kathleen Murphy | 12 Feb, 2018 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
Following last year’s trip to Ukraine, we are bringing some of Ukraine to Ledbury this March with a Pysanky Egg Workshop and Traditional Ukrainian Lunch held at Tinsmiths and run by Nataliya Cummings (Experience Ukraine) and Helena Orlowski. Traditional Psanky...
by Kathleen Murphy | 22 Jan, 2018 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
We are so lucky to be based in Herefordshire, which we maintain is the most beautiful and interesting county in the UK. So to start the year we began listing on our website what happens in this area on an annual basis. Then, because this year we are having a break...
by Kathleen Murphy | 30 Jun, 2017 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
Exactly two hundred years ago, Philip Clissett was born in Birtsmorton, Worcestershire, into a family of chairmakers. He was to become, arguably, the best known of all English rural chairmakers because of his association with the Arts & Crafts Movement. He was...
by Kathleen Murphy | 23 Mar, 2017 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
A sweet, hay-like smell hits you as chair-maker, Lawrence Neal, answers his door. The door opens in to what appears once to have been Victorian Schoolroom, but was in fact the village co-op store. Neville Neal, Lawrence’s father moved his furniture workshop to this...
by Kathleen Murphy | 31 Jan, 2017 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Above: an ash settin’ chair, right, Mike Abbott settin’ “I tried retiring in September 2015 – that lasted about six weeks” laughs Mike who has spent a lot of his working life teaching hundreds of people via his courses and thousands via his books...
