Subject: Re: Antique Tools in London?

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Gorman)
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 11:02:34 GMT

DONWENT wrote:

~  Does anyone know if there are any antique tool dealers in London?
~  I'm going there the 1st week in March.  Also going to Darlington.
~  Any info would be welcome.

I posted this only a short while ago, but the turnover on rec.ww seems so great that some readers might not have seen it. Since the holiday season is approaching, it might be worthwhile repeating.

Apologies to seasoned readers.

The Old Tool Store at Spilsby is possibly within reach of Darlington,
depending on time to spare and access to a car.

Some UK addresses. They cannot be guaranteed. If giving up precious
time or travelling distances, please phone beforehand to check if they
are open.

  The Old Tool Store
  Red Lion
  East Kirby
  Spilsby
  Lincs  PE23 4BX 
  England
  
  Phone  01790 763 406 (from the UK, omit the leading zero from abroad)
  Fax    01790 763 311
  Run by Ray Isles, Ashley Isles son. They offer a catalogue.
  Overseas enquiries welcome. "Callers welcome, but please telephone
  +first to avoid disappointment".
  
  Spilsby is about 30 miles east of Lincoln, about 12 miles west of
  Skegness, a seaside resort.
  
  There is a former Lancaster bomber station, RAF Hemswell at Hemswell
Cliff, near to a small village about 10 miles east of Gainsborough and
about 12 miles north of Lincoln where the hangars are divided into
antique shops of several kinds. There are some old tools. They are open
all the year round, and have a restaurant. The Hemswell Antique
Centres are on 01427 668389 (Omit leading zero from abroad). When
travelling southwards, do not go into Hemswell village, but proceed a
few hundred yards further to the roundabout and turn left. When I
visited, I felt it difficult to say whether a long detour would be
justified for the tools alone, but there are plenty of portable
antique items that might attract a SWMBO (or HWMBO) also. Regretably
some Pukey Craft shops as well.

  Old Tool Shop
  3 Highfield Road
  Doncaster

  The Tool Cabin
  (David Stanley)
  Ogansthorpe  LE12 9SR
  Leicestershire
  01530 222 320

  Lists available £4 - Europe, £5 - Australia, $6 - North America

  Chris White
  The Tool Shop
  1 Broadbridge House
  Bosham Lane
  Bosham  
  Sussex PO18 8HT
  
  01243 573 472

  Dan Letts
  Boys Hill Farm
  Holnest
  Sherborne
  Dorset

  Woody's Tool Shop
  856 Wimborne Road
  Moordown
  Bournemouth

  Roy Arnold
  77 High Street
  Needham Market
  Ipswich  IP6 8AN
  
  Phone:  01449 720110 (omit the leading zero from abroad)
  Fax:    01449 722498

  Tony Murland in the High Street also.
  
  Mark Rees Tools
  Barrow Mead Cottage
  Rush Hill
  Bath BA2 2QP
  
  Bristol Design (Tools) Ltd 
  14 Perry Road
  Bristol    BS1 5BG
  England

  Phone +44 117 929 1740

  Email    [email-masked]
  Charles Stirling - Speaks Murrican. 8-)
  
  The Tool Shop
  Broadbridge House
  Bosham Lane
  Bosham
  Chichester
  Sussex

  01243 573 472/ 572937
  Open Fri, Sat, Sun & Mon.

  The Tool Box
  Colyton
  Nr Seaton
  Devon
  EX13 6LU
  01297 552 868

  Pennyfarthing Tools
  31 Penyfarthing street
  Salisbury
  Wiltshire

  01722 410 090
  Mon - Sat
  
  Les Hall
  Malvern Studios Museum
  56 Cowleigh Road
  Malvern WR14 1QD
  Worcestershire  
  
  01327 467 316
  
  Furniture maker and restorer, selling essentially antiques. Tools
  apparently on display in glass cases.
  
  Leeside Tool Shop
  Burndell Road
  Yapton
  West Sussex BN1 80HP
  01243 554 056
  
  St Albans Gallery
  28 Spicer Street
  St Albans
  Herts  AL3 4 PG
  
  01727 830 574
  
  Inchmartin Restorations
  Inchture
  Perthshire
  Scotland
  01828 864512
  
  Paul Rougetel
  Chester
  01244 343259

Old Woodworking tools, 18th Cent Wooden planes, works from home
071 359 9313
  
London addresses ------------------------------------------------

  The Antiquarian
  King's Road,
  London
  (SE of the Sloane Square tube)

  The Old Tool Chest,
  41 Cross St  London, N1
  0171 359 9313
  Underground Angel and Islington Stations
  
It's situated about 1/2 way between the Angel and the Islington tube
stations.  Bring cash. 
  
  Jubilee Market
  Covent Garden
  London

  Monday only, 0800 to mid-day.
  Nearest Underground, Covent Garden and Charing Cross.
 
  Portobello Road market
  London
  There is a free guide published by The Portobello Road Antique Dealers
  Association, 288 Westbourne Grove, Longon W11 2PS, Tel: 0171-229 8354,
  which list the various shops and regular stalls.
  
New Tools ----------------------------------------------------------

James Jackson
  79 Alscot Rd
  London SE1

  0171 242 7578
  Nearest Underground London Bridge

  W Tyzack
  79 - 81 Kingsland Road
  London EC1
  0171 739 7126/2630

  Nearest Underground - Old St Station

  Parry Tyzack
  329 Old Street
  London EC1

  0171 739 8301
  Underground - Old Street

  Buck & Ryan
  101 Tottenham Court Road
  London W1

  0171 636 7475
  
  John Boddy's
  Northallerton
  N. Yorkshire
  
  New tools, books (but sealed in cling film), finishing materials,
turnery fittings and timbers (best for exotics and stuff for turners
and carvers). Weekend demonstrations. A sideline of a largeish
timber merchants.

Sculptors tools ----------------------------------------------------
  
  Alec Tiranti
  27 Warren Street
  London W1P 5DG
  Tel 0171 636 8565
  Fax 0171 636 85650.
  
Visits --------------------------------------------------------------

Temple Newsam House
Outskirts of Leeds 

An Elizabethan mansion in the care of Leeds City Council. Large range
of furniture. Extensive grounds for a walk.

Lotherton Hall 
Lotherton
Nr Aberford
N Yorks

An easy car ride from Leeds or York. Also run by Leeds City Museum. It
is an Edwardian house formerly owned by a collector. It has High
Victorian and some Arts & Crafts Movement furniture, usually some
modern craft displays. Worth a visit since the furniture is more
interesting than the usual run-of-the-mill museum stuff. A bird garden
for the non-craft people.

Sheffield has the Abbeydale Steelworks, home of the first crucible
steel and water-powered forge for making scythe blades. Also the
buildings of the original settlement. Run my Sheffield City Museum.
I've been there. It is well worth a visit.

The Shepherd Wheel near Sheffield about 1-1/2 miles away consists of
two cutlery grinding workshops powered by a waterwheel, completely
restored and fully operational.

Kelham Island Museum includes a 12,000 hp steam engaine and describes
the living conditions of  Sheffield workers and two self-employed
"Little Mesters" working full-time in specialist workshops, according to
my 1987 guide.

General
British Tourist Authority
http://www.bta.org.uk

Hotel Net
http://www.hotelnet.co.uk

Jeff, who thinks there is more to the UK than the usual tourist traps.

-- 
Jeff Gorman - West Yorkshire
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