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38 | UP! On The North Wessex Downs Welcome to The Bear The Bear Hotel is one of England’s oldest coaching inns and has been the focus of hospitality since 1464 in the quintessentially English market town of Hungerford, in the Royal County of Berkshire. We are situated in the Heart of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Thirty-nine individually designed bedrooms and award-winning restaurant. Visit our website: www.thebearhotelhungerford.co.uk Tel : 01488 682512
The From man software to read who loves stones IT Expert expert letter goes back carver to the Joss future lends a steady hand... YOU may have read the work of Joss Nankoo. He’s demonstrations hosted by Joss. not an DIGITAL-AGE author. Joss is IT a expert skilled Christine craftsman Brewster and alsowent “I used to teach at Thames Valley University, so an avid ‘back-to-the-future’ reader like many of to us discover – but of fresh stones. digital that part came easily, but the important thing for “There dexterity are so and many a second different career types in of hand-made stone – me is it helps to retain traditional stonework Portland, willow Purbeck, basketware. York, sandstones, granite and crafts. I always try to use local materials and slate to name Although but a few…. successful and contractor you have to in know the IT sensitive methods in my work,” says Joss who has them sector, all very, working very well with if you blue-chip are going corporates to work in thea degree in building surveying, and is a member them. south-east, You have to Christine be able had to look always at a enjoyed piece of of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors stone, leisuretime read it, see handicrafts its individual such character as quilting and and and the British Register of Accredited Memorial then visualise dressmaking. how it She will even end up, found before time ever to be you a Masons. set a hammer conservation and chisel volunteer on it.” with the Berkshire, Joss got into stone letter cutting by accident. Thatcham-based Buckinghamshire Joss and is an Oxfordshire expert stone Wildlife letter While working for stonemasons in Canada in the carver, Trust. but his talents extend far beyond the 1990s, the need came for a letter cutter with a carving of Then, house in 1993 nameplates she took and part gravestones. in a steady hand and a head for heights. Joss That’s two-day why he’s basket-making been assisting church course. “I groups just and volunteered. Soon he was 300ft up a church parish got councils hooked within on this the centuries-old AONB recently, craft passing steeple working on restoring Latin stone on his and knowledge started to and go advice to lots about of training the inscriptions. condition, courses, restoration including and some repair in Poland of localand “I found I had a natural ability for it. My stonework. Ireland. I used to make baskets for friends, creativity, attention to detail and personal pride developed The free condition my own stripey surveys, styles, funded and by then the developed the work into a passion. When I got began AONB’s to Sustainable get commissions.” Development Fund, back to England, I directed my energy and have She generated gained City significant & Guilds qualifications, interest enthusiasm in this direction and began focusing was about asked the ‘hidden to give basket-weaving heritage’ of my work on letter cutting and stone restoration, demonstrations churchyard headstones and private andlessons, eventually evolving into my own business Stone and prompted now regularly workshops runs and basket- Art Memorials.” UP! On The North Wessex Downs | 39
Page 1 and 2: EXPLORE | WILTSHIRE | OXFORDSHIRE |
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Page 13 and 14: Yellowhammer Picture: Tom Marshall
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Page 25 and 26: Fruit tree harvesting reaches its p
Page 27 and 28: New work on some very old work A CO
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Page 31 and 32: Russell Kilvington CAMILLA AND ROLY
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