The Royal Show - Restoration and Country Crafts Part 2
This is the second part of an article which gives
some of the flavour of the special Country Lifestyle Centre
at the Royal Show.
For more about the Show, see Part 1. Or for more about violin restoration and making, see our series in which we track Derek Roberts' progress as he makes a violin by hand.
Serena de la Hey with some of her sculptures
in willow. The animal was constructed from scratch during two
days at the show, with help from visitors.
Graham Ellison of the Victorian Wheelbarrow Company, Crewton building a traditional wheelbarrow. David Chubb of Box Bush Farm, South Cerney in Gloucestershire making a traditional Cotswold bee skep.
The clock restorer Robert Ovens
of Rugby specializes in the repair and restoration of antique clocks,
barometers and sundials: church clocks, public, stable and domestic
clocks.
The beautiful oak-framed timber
building which forms the Country Lifestyle Centre at the Royal Showground
in Stoneleigh was played in by the Omega string quartet. Simon
Foster of Stratford with an oil painting under restoration.
Part One of this feature article on the Royal Show.