Showing posts with label STEEL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STEEL. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 March 2013

DIGEST: SCISSORS MADE IN SHEFFIELD, INDUSTRIAL PHOTOS IN DERBY, BROOKS AND RCA, LABOUR & WAIT



An informative short video on Ernest Wright & Son, scissor makers based in Sheffield. Many more clips from the series "Paul Martin's Handmade Revolution are available here (BBC)

A photo of the production line at Leys Malleable Castings Company. An exhibition of manufacturing photos is taking place at Format International Photography Festival in Derby, where Leys was based (Guardian)

A refreshing initiative between Brooks, the Midlands based bike saddle maker, and the Royal College of Art. The video is worth watching to see some of the solutions that the students propose (Brooks)

Retailer Labour & Wait is posting a short feature entitled 'Tools of the Trade' each month, in relation to its 2013 calendar. January sees printer Harrington and Squires in the spotlight, February's focus is Creamore Mill and in March, Welsh weavers Elvet Woolen Mill is the subject (Labour & Wait)

Sunday, 28 November 2010

MADE IN ENGLAND : THE SHARD

We spent a wonderful winter's morning 40 floors above London today. On our visit we were told that the steel used in the construction of The Shard (as it wishes to be known, no colloquial nicknames needed sadly) is from the north of England.

View of The Shard's shadow from the 40th floor by Manufacture & Industry