This is just a little about us and how we came to be manufacturing decorative ironwork

I started the business in 1996 after being made redundant from a garden machinery repair business, the basis of the business then and up to a few years ago was the maintenance and repair of all types of garden machinery, with a little bit of fabrication from time to time.

During the occasional fabrication jobs I often found I was restricted in what I was able to do due to a lack of a forge and something heavy to shape metal on, namely an anvil.

Year by year I picked up various bits of equipment that allowed me to carry out more technical repairs, such as machining and some precision grinding, but still no anvil or forge.

2006 came and turned out to be a lousy year, my Mum was taken ill in august, my 40^th birthday came, and Mum died of liver cancer in October the same year.

After that I seriously considered closing the place down, but obviously didn't as we are still trading, several thoughts and memories kept me going and they were that Mums Dad was a blacksmith and although I never saw him do any real work as he had retired before I was old enough to join him in his shop, I was always fascinated by all the tongs and tools laying around in his shop.

So with my wifes support we set about building a small forge and converting part of the workshop to a blacksmiths shop, around the same time a local farm was selling up and after a call to the owner I had procured an anvil, spent a few nights knocking up several pairs of tongs and the shop was ready.

To begin with we thought up many weird and wonderful things that could be made out of old horse shoes, some of the better ones we do still make.

We do still repair and service mowers and garden machinery but we do a lot more decorative ironwork now which adds a bit of variety to the workload.

My wife now helps out with much of the work, machinery and ironwork, in fact after a few months tuition and practice she is quite proficient with the mma (arc) welding set. She asked if I could teach her to weld after she lost her Mum to dementia and renal failure earlier this year.

She now likes to build artistic pieces incorporating horse shoes within her designs, all shown on the products page.

So that is where we are at the moment, so whats in the future, well hopefully extra storage space for finished ironwork, mowers and an under cover rack for our stock steel and of course more orders for bespoke decorative ironwork.

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