Berkhamsted Arts & Crafts

Trusted for 11 years

Brushes and paint are probably the only original stock we still sell after 42 years, all be it that now the brushes are not for emulsion and wallpaper paste and the paint doesn't often come in 2 litre tins.  HAN.D.I.Y.MAN at the bottom of Swingate Lane seems a long way past.   We had decided to try shopkeeping, Rod from a background of banking and Tina from Occupational Therapy and motherhood.    Rod soon slipped into using his practical skills for picture framing and it wasn't long before Tina was teaching crafts at the local college.  The craft shop seemed a natural progression so in 1977 Dorothea Patterson cut the ribbon on our new venture and Berkhamsted Arts and Crafts was born.