What can I say? Here we have another brand new Hostess No35 made from scratch at our workshops here in Bristol. This one is going into newly restored 1930s Showmans van. What a beauty!
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Brand new Hostess No35!!!
Here’s something a bit special! This is a Hostess No35 we have made from scratch for a client. We only take on a few of these a year as they are such a lot of work to get them right. The client chose ‘Northern county blue’ for the colour of his enamel and I got to say it looks stunning!
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Hostess Mahogany fronted coal draws
Here we have our new mahogany fronted coal draws for the Hostess Range. These are exactly as the ones supplied by Mellors of Oldham in the early 20th century. The only difference being that our versions have stainless steel draws.
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Stunning Hostess No35 for showmans van
They might be a lot of work but these brilliant little Hostess range really are a thing to behold. These ranges would have been fitted to the vast majority of travelling wagons and van for both the showmen and gypsies of the late 19th/ early 20th century. This examples dates from circa 1920 and now restoration is complete it will be returned to its original van
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Hostess No35 Showmans
And here’s another beautiful Hostess No35 from a 1930s showman’s van. You can’t get much posher than this! We completed a full restoration on this including new casting, vitroeus enamel and nickel plating. A picture speaks a thousand words comes to mind.
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Smith & Wellstood ‘Wellstood Sidelight’
This is one of our largest restorations to date. It is a fantastic examples of a 1920s kitchen range and was one of the most extensive and impressive models available at the time. With art deco styling, extensive polishing, nickel plating, tiles and even walnut oven knobs there is nothing quite like the ‘Wellstood sidelight’. This range has been restored back to fully operational condition and will be in regular use.
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Hostess No 34 Stove range, Columbian Stove & Iron Works
Here we have the very rare Hostess No.34. This one has been made entirely by ourselves here in Bristol from our own patterns. This has been manufactured as an exact replicas of the originals except all sheet metal has been replaced with Stainless Steel and the high finish electroplating is now triple plated copper, nickel, nickle. The green colour is Vitreous Enamel (fused galss) and is available in 5 different original colours. These little ranges can be made to order.
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New workshop
Well we have finally begun the move to the new (much larger) workshop so thank you to all those who have been patient during this time. You can expect big changes to the website, services and products over the coming months with some exciting new developments like the manufacture of very high quality replica ‘Nipper’ stoves, ‘Hostess’ ranges and authentic Larbert and Guidwife ‘Back cabin stoves’!
I will post with more details on this as time goes on.
All the best.
Olly
