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Softseats Antique Furniture Restoration

In the complex world of soft furnishings and especially the upholstery restoration field, we are able to offer a service of quality considering our years of experience in the trade and are able to undertake most aspects of furniture repairs that are required by customers to ensure the continued service they ask their furniture restoration to provide.

Soft Seats Unit 1a The Pound Coate Devizes Wiltshire SN10 3LG United Kingdom Tel: (01380) 860350

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Very Bad news - of an art nature

SERENDIPITY - an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. The musings of a Textile Artist Very Bad news - of an art nature I have just heard that my favourite place - Urchfont Manor is due to close in 2012!!! Read an article in the local paper click here to read the article - Wiltshire Council is closing offices in Trowbridge,... more

Endangered birds set spirits soaring

Health Corn buntings gather on a set-aside field near Devizes in Wiltshire. The sight of a healthy flock of "fat" corn buntings has got ornithologists all a flutter as it gives fresh hope to the dying breed. Numbers of the bird have plunged to just 10,000 over the past 40 years and they are an endangered species. more

Old Sarum in the snow

I had to visit the museums in Devizes and Salisbury yesterday (hence the cathedral photos), in connection with an exciting little exhibition I'm helping with, as a guest of directors David Dawson and Adrian Green respectively (I earlier referred to British Museum curators as heroic: the challenges they face pale beside those of being responsible... more

(Buy) the Essence of Emeril: Food Network celebrichef Emeril Lagasse has...

Food Network celebrichef Emeril Lagasse has listed his NYC townhouse - which has 1,000 square feet of terraces - for $15M. Curbed NY pulled the listing, which mentions all the obvious food-related perks: a custom Smallbone of Devizes kitchen, a 150-bottle wine fridge, Wolf, Sub-Zero, and a dining room facing a garden. more

Menu of final lunch on Titanic to sell for £100,000 at auction

Titanic 100th anniversary: 5,000 artefacts to be auctioned The sale is being held by Henry Aldridge & Son - the world's leading auctioneers of Titanic memorabilia - to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic on March 31. ''The sale will be 100 years to the day after Titanic was finished at... more

Braeside residential - Day 1!

Day 1 - All aboard the coach which took us to Braeside Education Centre in Devizes for an exciting fun-packed three days of outdoor learning! Our first activity was an orienteering activity within the grounds looking for horse brasses scattered around the grounds. Armed with a map and a wax crayon we set off to find the 22 brasses. more

On the Market: Curbed NY just got an official...

Curbed NY just got an official press release from NYC's (new) temple to insanity, One57, a 90-story, Christian de Portzamparc-designed condo building that just hit the market. Ahem: kitchens by British cabinetmaker Smallbone of Devizes and amenities such as an "arts and crafts atelier room" and pet wash room. Units start at $6.75M. more

Titanic mystery over violin 'from band leader who played on'

Scott of the Antarctic: 100 years on The violin and its case were said at the time to be being sent to the White Star line for forwarding to England. But mystery has surrounded its fate thereafter. Now the auctioneer Henry Aldridge & Son of Devizes, Wilts, which has a worldwide reputation for handling Titanic artefacts , has disclosed that... more

Flock of endangered Corn Bunting birds gives renewed hope for its breed

Share The heart-warming sight of a flock of 'fat' Corn Bunting birds has got ornithologists in a flutter as it gives renewed hope for the dying breed. Numbers of the brown farmbirds have plunged by nearly 90 per cent to 10,000 over the last 40 years and they are now an endangered species. The ground-nesting birds have been the victim to intensive... more

Titanic: Violin played by tragic band as ship sank 'has been found'

Heroic Wallace Hartley and his band defiantly played on as the doomed Titanic sank. Advertisement >> Now experts believe the violin he was using has been discovered. Tests are being done to prove if it is the instrument band leader Wallace used when he and his seven fellow musicians drowned in the disaster 100 years ago. more