Author: Charles Holloway

Edward Molson Studio sells the work of artists and craftspeople who maintain traditional craft practices. Running workshops and lectures, they show the value of maintaining dying methods, for their quality will always make them relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWKFk4N5iG8 Studio Trailer

The demise of the small farm has left a vast number of small agricultural buildings in towns and villages all over the country, and it's quite reasonable to take a look so long as the land owner knows you're there. Often in infrequent use, spaces fill up with a strange variety of things and often… Continue reading Wendesbury Woollens – A Project in England →

Written for Folly Newsletter, edited by Rosie Ellison-Balaam Abandoning Old Modes is an appraisal of the effect landscape takes on architectural form and respectively, the effect of this union on everyday action. Perhaps something important lies is subdued means of living and making. Founded on the use of surrounding material, the Blackhouse was a means… Continue reading Abandoning Old Modes: Hebridean Blackhouse →

The Weald and Downland Living Museum is central to the conservation of architectural and craft building practice. The museum is located in Singleton, north-east of Chichester, and works to save damaged and condemned buildings, dismantling them piece by piece to be rebuilt and repaired on site. https://videopress.com/v/XfZgINXY?preloadContent=metadata John Roberts, On site Woodworker https://videopress.com/v/EcAj3dcH?preloadContent=metadata https://videopress.com/v/5GKTNwry?preloadContent=metadata https://videopress.com/v/QnGZORgp?preloadContent=metadata

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The Kiplingcotes Derby is the oldest horse race in England, and fantastically, it is still being run after 501 years. Better still, it is reliably understood that the race has been run every single year. Taking place between the old Railway Station at Kiplingcotes and Londesborough Wold Farm near Market Weighton, the race is run… Continue reading Kiplingcotes Derby – A Project on England →