A Grand Day Out

October 2024

Dan and Ian at the WCB awards dinner, October 2024

This month we enjoyed a trip to London, where Dan Parker, Assistant Blacksmith at Parmenter Forge, was clothed in the livery of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths at the Michaelmas Court at Painters’ Hall, London.

Dan, who has worked alongside Ian after training with him at Warwickshire College in 2003, was introduced to the committee before being ceremonially ‘clothed’ and welcomed to the company. Now that we are both liverymen, we’re hoping to use our influence in the WCB to further our passion for education, both of the public and the next generation of smiths, with a view to keeping the craft alive and relevant.