Friends Visiting

https://hartsilversmiths.co.uk/

​SEE:  Hart Silversmiths Trust

We also visited the family at Cross House - where many might say that it is very much as it has always been since the early 16th-century! And visited my sister and her family in their 'cottage' - probably a mere hundred years old or some such.

​See below.

Oops... This has been sitting  in drafts for weeks.  And our good friend Roger was here at the beginning of September!  

As Roger is a veteran of the Cotswolds we spent less time doing touristy things and more time catching up and meeting other friends, eating and drinking.

One place, however, that we stumbled across (well, actually recommended by our neighbour), is this marvellous workshop in Chipping Campden.  The area is widely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement spearheaded by William Morris.  So, in 1902 one key member of the movement, C R Ashbee, brought the Guild of Handicraft to the town and one of the Guildsmen was local man George Hart (b 1882).   As the craftsmen went their separate ways in 1908, the Guild was continued by George and three other partners, as he established his silversmith business in an old silk mill in Sheep Street.... and it is still there producing high quality "a wide range of domestic silverware, we make and design anything from tiny thimbles to cutlery, bowls, tea and coffee services and silver-mounted crystal decanters".

The workshop is very much as it has always been!