tinsmith

The trained tinsmith is now forging a new career as a blacksmith making decorative wrought-iron products to clients' own designs from his workshop in Banbury thanks to help from the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce.

"We can have your group or individual guests work with a resident tinsmith to learn how to make nutmeg graters or birch-bark containers, called mukuk.

The district court ruled that the tinsmith company Bang & Lefverth was guilty of causing another person's death and sentenced it to pay SEK18,000 in income-related fines.

His name was William Henry Graham and he was originally a tinsmith by trade, but times were hard and he had six children to feed.

Arbie Williams in the United States creates quilts from old trousers; Lawrence Mayers in Trinidad creates "pans" -- turned steel drums -- from empty oil drums; Assane Faye in Senegal creates decorative boxes and other objects from scrap metal; Jose Ignacio Criollo in Ecuador creates elaborate festival headdresses from a truly astonishing variety of found objects; and Lee Carter (designer) in the United States works cooperatively with Roberto Granados Chaves (tinsmith) in Mexico creating art objects-de-kitsch from recycled sheet tin.

My mother arrived on the Aquitania with me in her arms two years later; a cousin of hers in New Jersey had been able to "bring her over." My father meanwhile had found work as a tinsmith, but he remained an illegal alien--with all of us fearful of his being caught and deported to either the firing squad or the hangman's noose until midway through the Second World War when, along with others like him who had led crime-free lives after their arrival here, he was allowed to register with the authorities and enter the country legally.

A few years later he apprenticed to a Wilton tinsmith. As the tin shop expanded to include a hardware store, Nelson's involvement with the business expanded as well.

Lindley historian David Verguson will lead the walk along some lesser known footpaths, seeing pubs, chapels and grand houses, unveiling the lives of mill owners and millworkers, Methodists and their memorials, a tinsmith and a sculptor.

Lynda Burton, chairman of the Bedworth Society, said: "Horace Topp had been a tinsmith in the old Roadway, now Park Road, and is still remembered by many folk as the man who made and also repaired the pit bottles taken to work by local miners.

I'm hoping to learn a few skills in being a tinsmith, so I can do practical work on site."

Grandsons of a tinsmith with a yen for real estate and construction, speaker Stuart Match Suna and his brother Alan Suna, both trained as architects, are president and EO respectively of Silvercup Studios, the largest film and television production facility in New York City.

School Vacation Week April 19-27 Meet the newborn animals, including lambs and calves; see OSV's gardens being planted; explore exhibits; visit with the blacksmith, potter, tinsmith; and much more.

Isabel, of Allesley Old Road, Chapelfields, said: "This is a photo of a tinsmith's get-together in the 1940s.