We are forming stronger ties with Britain's strongest and dynamic foundry.Thomas Dudley Ltd have just spent £12million on fitting and re equipping their facilities. The British ironworks is hopefully partnering with them to ensure work stays first and foremost in the UK.The foundry business development manager, Adrian Knowles, met with Clive yesterday in initiating this bond.

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We are very happy to be supporting the The Legendary Llangollen Faery Festival this summer. Event organisers Fiona Maher and Peter Stubbs visited us on a glorious Sunday afternoon to catch up and speak details. The Faery Festival is a huge event in the Llangollen summer calender and this year is taking place at the pavilion 13th - 14th August. When Fiona last visited us she fell in love with our giant dragon and fairy sculptures and they will be travelling acro...

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We are proud to be doing these for Severn Hospice. They will look stunning when finished "Remembering a loved one is very personal and the Severn Hospice Forget Me Not Appeal is a special way to remember and celebrate the life of someone important to you" They have commissioned us to do beautiful bespoke Severn Hospice forget me not flowers for your garden. Each striking flower will symbolise the life of someone special. To know more about the appeal, see the c...

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We found Saturday's expo in Bewdley extremely positive for tourism's future in our county. It was empowering to stand alongside these Shropshire champions, fighting the county's corner and winning! Mark Hooper of Sabrina Travel, Paul Milner of Oswestry town council and Tim King of Shropshire council.

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Wonderful to meet the friends of The Black Country Living Museum at the tourism expo on Saturday.They have been formally invited here to be treated like VIP's and explore our site as our special guests. There is a lot we can learn from the museum, and we look forward to building a new relationship with them.

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Another fantastic relationship formed at this weekends expo at West Midlands Safari Park. Stuart Render formally of Coach Monthly. We are looking forward to working with Stuart in the future referencing his immense knowledge of the tourism trade and insuring Oswestry and Shropshire benefit from the massive increase in coaches to the area.

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Following this weekends tourism expo at West Midlands Safari Park, two coach operators have been persuaded to visit Oswestry to hopefully build the town into their programme for 2016 but particularly 2017. Johnsons Coaches are one of the biggest operators and plan day trips and holidays all over the UK. Using the British Ironworks as a day partner, the coach operators will build both the town and the ironworks into their offers for trippers. Jo Brown, representing...

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What a treat!Tony Hughes turned up today to audition for the chance to perform in our showroom as part of our Live Music at weekends. It was a glorious sunny day and Tony set himself up outside reception. He certainly wow'd us with his act.Tony is a one man band and sung a variety of songs without even missing a note! We promptly booked him for two performances in the next couple of months.

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This week we got to meet Trevor Edgerton who is the new Chairman of development at Oswestry Golf Club. Mr Edgerton brought along with him a collection of knives for our latest campaign, the creation of The National Monument against Violence and Aggression - Knife Angel. Brilliant to have support from our neighbours and we are looking forward to developing our relationship further.

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We are delighted to have taken up a new relationship with The Oddfellowsan organisation of friendships groups organising trips and events. With a total of 147 branches across the country, we hope they will all join us, here in Shropshire, to discover not only Oswestry town, but Shropshire's largest display of decorative metalwork.

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