Restaurant & Grill Room

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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.

Living: Ilse Crawford, founder of Elle Decor

in 1989, her creations are now the cover story.
Thanks to Peter Terzian at Elle Decor for
featuring Ancient Industries in What We Love.
Photographs of Ilse Crawford's The Olde Bell.

Living: Hitchcock, mistaken identity + unwilling blondes.

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.

For more on the brogue see Belt and Braces.

Living: Samphire, a seaside 

forager's delight, in season now.

Photograph by Sue Daly.

Living: Welsh ancient industries, 

taught and bought at Blodwen.

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

magazine for talking up Ancient Industries.

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.