Yesterday saw a meeting of minds with the heads of both Shropshire and Oswestry Ramblers getting together with Clive at the Ironworks. The objective was to improve rights of way and footpaths around the area and connecting to the Ironworks, to ensure that ramblers from all over the county are able to use the Centre as a coffee stop or as a walking destination. The Ironworks are lucky enough to have several public rights of way nearby and adjoining the sculpture park, thes...

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Students studying business and ICT visited the centre this week to study its internal workings and its operational structure. The Ironworks was chosen by the year tutors for its unusual and imaginative multilevel platforms, where parts of the business operate in different areas and markets simultaneously. Students were introduced to different departments and were given in depth explanations on how the business operates. The students got to learn about its history, its focus...

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Visit our new Chinese tea shop for a range of quality loose leaf teas and exquisite teaware. Learn about the positive aspects of traditional Chinese tea and the wide range of flavours available to try.  Fifi will be here to offer expert advice and free samples.

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Introducing Pete Griffiths, the latest artist to join our 'Artists On Tour'. This incredible bike sculpture took Pete an astounding two years to create, he could only work on the bike which he named Turbo Head, for a few hours in the evening after work and the odd weekend. The engine is made from an old trolley jack, two paint tins and motor cycle chains. The frame was made by using old car parts, a garden swing, garden chairs, and an old bike from his local scrap ...

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Educating Children in Understanding the Importance of Recycling Waste Today we are launching our schools appeal to collect thousands of unwanted tins for our latest project 'Don't bin it - Tin it'. This project intends to highlight the amazing opportunities for creating something useful and beautiful from general household waste.This project is very much about education, promoting the environment and highlighting how we can all have a positive impact on our wo...

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On Sunday 30th April we will be hosting the inaugural Oswestry Half Marathon, Shropshire’s newest running event organised by UK Run Chat, which has over 750 runners signed up and raring to go already! Our 90 acres of grounds lends itself perfectly to hosting events, with plenty of free parking, a café serving delicious homemade cakes and the most fantastic collection of metalwork you've ever seen, you'll have plenty to keep you occupied both before and...

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This weekend saw another Oswestry group step forward to help with the reopening of the Mile End Tourist Info Centre. M D Warriors, are an organisation dedicated to the art of martial arts and the inclusion of children from Oswestry and surrounding areas.Their response was in answer to a call for help, from the newly formed volunteer group ‘Oswestry Tourism Volunteer Group’. The organisers hope that the older children can gain work and confidence experience...

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Volunteers Wanted Call for volunteers, anyone wishing to help support tourism/visitor footfall in the area/town, please give us a call on 01691-610952 and ask for Oswestry Tourism (Until open based at the British Ironworks)  Members of the public, students, members of Rotary or civic groups, able bodied, with disabilities - all are welcome to get involved. New year thought, potentially if we could gather just 60 volunteers, each willing to give up half a day each mont...

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Charity Awards Centre For National Support Over Knife Crime The British Ironwork Centre this week received a recognition award from SAMM, the charity that offers ‘Support after Murder and Manslaughter’ which signifies the charity recognising the centres efforts in supporting national police forces and the home office in reducing knife crime throughout the UK. The charity used their annual AGM and conference to recognise people and organisations including The Bri...

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Have your cake and eat it at the British Ironwork Centre 30th September 2016  This Friday our staff here at the British Ironwork Centre will be baking up some sweet treats in order to raise funds for the wonderful ‘Macmillan’ Cancer Support charity. The delicious results will be on sale in the showroom on September 30th (this Friday) between 9.00am-12.00pm to tempt our visitors. 50% of our coffee and cake sales are being directly donated to Macmillan Cance...

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