News

What a start to the year! By the time this was written on the 18th January, much of the snow had disappeared but only after covering the higher reaches of the Peak District for 33 DAYS!!

Inevitably, things only got moving rather slowly but we have already received some interesting orders and commissions:

Dartford Bandstand

Working for Tony Cohen of Britannia Architectural Metalwork, we are to build and erect a complete new bandstand with copper clad roof within three months. The design is fairly typical of late Victorian / early Edwardian structures, though the horizontal projecting eaves are replaced by upswept curves from the soundboard (the soundboard is the tongue and groove boarded ceiling).

The new Dartford Bandstand

Slightly smaller than the typical Victorian ‘full’ bandstand, this one measures just under 7000mm across the eaves.

Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) Memorial, National Arboretum

Our next military memorial is an unusual one, consisting not of bronze plaques or murals but of a large pierced stainless steel disc on a slate base. The RAF badge, in full relief in bronze, will sit in the centre of the disc and the pierced lettering in the disc will cast shadows on the ground below. Illustrations in a couple of months…..

A Trail of Sand!

Heritage Trails cover some unusual old crafts and industries but we haven’t previously made any plaques for the sand quarrying industry. We now have a commission to produce a series of plaques in the format below for the Sands of Time Trail in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Leighton Buzzard was and is a major centre of sand quarrying, the sand being hand-dug and conveyed by narrow gauge railway until about 30 years ago.