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We are Happy to be supporting Nscollege in their work experience projects. Danielle Williams will join us in January for some work experience. Danielle is a keen photographer and is very interested in the visual arts, so she will feel right at home at the Ironworks for a 10 week placement. She can get a feel for a creative working environment and show us her skills with the camera.
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Sebastian Siddi, General Manager at Wynnstay Hotel and SPA is working together with us in creating a partnership package for coach and tour operators visiting the town. The package could include a visit to the Ironworks in the morning consisting of a tour of our site and our metal working workshops. Then in the afternoon the group can then go on to visit Oswestry and the Wynnstay Hotel and Spa in the afternoon. We could be sending this package out to over 2000 group visit an...
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This week Nscollege employability course came to the Ironworks to have a look at our metal working workshops. They saw Paul our Blacksmith at work in the forge and got to have a sneak peak of our current project, the creation of The National Monument against Violence and Aggression - knife angel.
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WOW! What a lovely lovely message from one of the families that's visited our Santa's grotto. Mr and Mrs Claus have loved meeting everyone and are excited for the last weekend of visits coming up this Saturday. We love reading how much our visitors enjoyed our grotto. We read every single one. Thank you Fay Coe and family!! Please come and see us again soon. Merry Christmas! Please click here.
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It was fantastic this weekend to have Porthywaen Silver Band perform in our showroom for our customers. They played an array of classic Christmas carols which created great atmosphere for visitors to the centre. We are looking forward to next Saturday as the band will be performing again for us and we will make a special donation to the band in thanks.
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We loved having Fusion Arts Oswestry here doing Christmas face painting in our showroom on Saturday. As you can see, Frozen seemed to be a very popular theme with the children. Thank you Fusion arts for bringing Christmas to the faces of our young visitors!
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We now have dexterity challenges for all in our cafe. Test your dexterity skills with these new challenges. They aren't as easy as they look!
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Come and Visit Forge Falconry at the British Ironwork Centre. See this short video of Head falconer, Andy Cook talking about falconry experiences at the centre.
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MD Warriors have asked for our help in contributing to their collection for local food banks. They will be coming to collect anything we can gather together on Wednesday. At this time of year food banks are essential and we really want to do as much as we can to help. Please get in touch with the team if you want to donate or help in any way click here.
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We are MAD on bow tie's here at the Ironworks. This week, Trish Brunt of 'Candy Designs' Oswestry delivered this fantastic Bow tie she hand made. We hope Trish can pop in for a coffee next time she's passing so we can learn more about what she creates.
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