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I am an Architectural Model Maker based in Furness Vale, Derbyshire. Established since 1989, I have been model making since my school days.

Church Street Scale Model

Church Street Scale Model
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Two Wheels

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Amsterdam is a city where two wheeled transport reigns supreme.  Even the dogs participate. ...

Kes

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I watched a bird from a distance as it hovered over the fields above Broadhey farm. As I climbed higher, it landed in a tree above me, a beautiful kestr...

Roger and Raymond

09:45
I have been photographing some of my paintings and one of my favourites is this watercolour. These commercial narrowboats are at Uxbridge on the Grand Union Canal....

Promises

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This piece of verse was written by my grandmother, probably when she was in her 70's. It appears to refer to the loss of her first husband who was killed in an...

Mobile Phone

10:27
Many years ago I needed a telephone box for a model that I was constructing. Those that I could buy from the model shop were clumsily cast in solid metal and I...

Bradthorne

10:20
I started to build models as a hobby and that story began in my early teens. In the early 1970's a building in Shropshire, a very small but very traditionally...

A Gentlemen's Hairdresser

22:07
My Grandfather was William Schink, an immigrant from Hamburg and a master hairdresser. Like him, my father followed that trade, first as a lather boy, apprenticed...

Hockerley Sunset

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An open field, heathlike, strewn with stones and gorse. Used as a common by dog walkers and horse riders and grazed by aggressive sheep. The sun sets over "Lower...

The quietest place under the sun

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The little town of Clun lies in deepest Shropshire, close to the Welsh Border. In the mid 60's when I first stayed at the Boar's Head it was as quiet and remote...
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