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 lawnmower and garden machinery, with a little bit of metalwork fabrication from time to time. Have a look at our mower and cycle pages from the link above.

During the occasional  metalwork 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 we picked up various pieces of equipment that allowed us to carry out more technical repairs, such as machining and some precision grinding, but still no anvil or forge.

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 spent making up several pairs of tongs and the shop was ready.

In 2006 I started reading up on blacksmithing and forge work which was not exactly alien to me as my Grandfather was the village blacksmith and my Uncle worked in the shop with him, so reading up on blacksmithing kind of tied together all the bits and pieces of forging methods I had been told about over the years.

Once we had a functional blacksmiths shop, my Uncle got to hear about what we were doing and came round offering us lots of advice and techniques on how to make various pieces of forged work. He then decided I should have my Grandfathers shoeing hammer and forging hammer which he had kept since Grandfathers Death, which I felt very honoured to accept.

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 in March 2009.