Historic Firm's New Plan ; David Clensy Visits Thomas Ware & Sons, the Evocative Sole Survivor of Bristol's Once Proud Leather Industry
Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › February 10, 2011
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STEP inside the seemingly time-locked Bedminster tannery of Thomas Ware & Sons, and you feel as if you have stepped back through a time warp to the 1940s.
Walking across the cobbled courtyard, you get intriguing glimpses of Victorian warehouses filled with countless drying leather hides, hung from meat-hooks.See the full content of this document
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Historic Firm's New Plan ; David Clensy Visits Thomas Ware & Sons, the Evocative Sole Survivor of Bristol's Once Proud Leather Industry
It is a sight that can't have changed at all since the company's was started on this Coronation Road site in the 1840s.
Step into the factory office, and the time-vacuum continues.The office of the firm's managing director Marcus Brearley is dominated by a heavy oak desk, an open fire, and a leather armchair.The 64-year-...See the full content of this document
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