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CASS College dates
The CASS College have announced new dates for several of their short courses, including dates for the Intermediate Furniture Making Course I did last summer. (Disclaimer: The big top pic on the CASS...
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Slideshow 2 – Bridgewood & Neitzert
(Please click on the titles above to go to the slideshow) Bridgewood & Neitzert Ltd, Violin Repairers, Dealers and Makers, 146 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 0JU. I had such a nice...
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Built to last.
Like many cities and towns in many parts of the world, Hackney in east London is seeing a fair amount of change, as property developers move in, snapping up every disused building and ‘brown field’...
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Sutton House, Hackney
Windows at Sutton House At the end of our high street, rather in contrast to the second hand shops, estate agents and fried chicken shops, you will find Sutton House. It is a Tudor House, built in 1535...
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Maurice Franklin, Wood Turner
I couldn’t resist asking for permission to re-use the pictures from this post from the quite wonderful Spitalfields Life. Please click through to read the heart-warming story of Maurice Franklin, who...
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An excerpt from ‘Shoreditch Tales’
Lucas Furniture Co.Ltd in Dunloe Street, 1959 I’d rather graft than do nothing In the 19th and most of the 20th Centuries, Shoreditch was an industrial centre: printing, box-making, clothes, footwear...
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D.i.y Dad
Ok, half-term has arrived, and so instead of building nice storage cabinets for some of my tools, I’m getting on with my kitchen renovation. Apologies for lack of blog posts over the last couple of...
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Shoreditch Wood Turning Co.
Mike Butcher forwarded some photos of local interest to me of an oak occasional table he had recently purchased. Badged by the maker ‘Shoreditch Wood Turning Co, 147 Hackney Road’. This was no doubt a...
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Helping hands
The weeks headlines are a reminder that some people in the world are dealing with things on a daily basis that are hard for us to even imagine. It’s certainly very easy to get focused on the small...
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Scything on Hackney Marshes
Round the corner from where we live are the Hackney Marshes. A training ground for many a young football player and also a are sanctuary for many forms of wildlife. Paths cross the Marshes from all...
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Adam Dant’s ‘Industrious Shoreditch’
The Hackney Tools blog celebrates not only the modern makers of east London, but also the rich history of industry that was drawn to the area throughout the 18th-19thc. This map, drawn by cartographer...
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A few notes about fishing…
Despite the never-ending autumn and very mild winter, I’m looking ahead to spring and have started to sort out my fishing gear. In my youth, I was a member of Luton Angling Club and fished many a...
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East End Canal Heritage
In the relatively short time I’ve lived in Hackney myself, I’ve seen a radical shift in the use of the canals in the area. For one, more and more people are living on them, with the costs of a barge...
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Mitred beaded face frames
A recent joinery job I was asked to do called for some beaded face frames on an alcove cabinet. This detail works particularly well as it creates a nice shadow break before the flat panel of the door,...
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