
Restaurant & Grill Room
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Ancient Industries online
shop is 1 year old today!
Humble + sincere thanks
from the Proprietress.

Baker & Confectioner

Hams

Hardware

Pharmaceutical Chemist

Oyster Bar

Wedding Cakes

Undertaker

Theatrical Properties

Model Ships and Railways

Letter Maker

Clerical Outfitter

Amusement
Ancient Industries will be visiting Abroad for 3 weeks
or thereabouts. High Street illustrated by Eric Ravilious.


Goddesses do exist:
Remodelista,
Sourcebook for the Considered Home.
Ancient Industries thanks the girls for
their support, which is such an honour.


Brogue Ghillies from
Lobb
Brogue Ghillie wearing sisters
Living: The brogue gillie. The Scots eschewed
the tongue which was thought to catch mud and
weigh the shoe down. Popular among the daughters
of English country squires in the 1930s.

forager's delight, in season now.
Photograph by Sue Daly.


Living: Welsh ancient industries,




Living: Crop circles. Not terribly ancient, this
phenomenon was thought up in a pub by artistically
inclined martians who became active in the 1960s.
All photographs by Francine Blake, in Wiltshire.


Living: The horse-shoe, considered
necessary since the taming of horses
(which was long before the domestication
of witches). Thanks to Condé Nast's
Lucky


Mambrino, by George Stubbs, 1779
Living: The Cherhill Horse. One of several
chalk horses in Wiltshire, this was art directed in
1780 by Stubbs' friend, a Dr Alsop, who shouted
directions through a speaking trumpet.
contributors
Reed Wilson, Kendra Wilson