RIP to a true cricket legend. A Test cricketer, captain, coach and national selector - Bob Simpson was a mighty figure in Australian cricket, giving everything to our game. Cricket Australia extends our thoughts and sympathies to Bob’s family and friends.

Whether you are reading Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, where better to sit than on one of our Dragon Benches?

Always a pleasure visiting the foundry to pick up some new castings - especially now that the weather has turned a little cooler!

Just a few more of our bandstand restorations to share - we are rather proud of them - and we are always happy to be invited to do more!! You know where we are if you have a project in mind!

Delighted to use a visit to Leamington Spa as an opportunity to check in on an old friend - the restored bandstand in Pump Room Gardens. A quick mention and recommendation for the coffee and cakes at Temperance cafe! as well

It's not all benches, fountains, bandstands and railing repairs here at Lost Art - for those of us who always wanted to be a train driver - we got to work with some special ones, even if we had to move them ourselves!

🥳 Happy Birthday, Rugby League!

Paperback is now out. It does feel strange having a book published.

Just a reminder to go and explore your local park - and the possibility of something happening at the #bandstand - and a few more that we have restored back to their best!!

Gates of any size repaired, recreated or reimagined, produced and installed. Get in touch via the website.

The biggest jigsaw we have completed - without a picture on the box too - a Boulton & Watt rotative beam engine, in several hundred pieces (including some irrelevant ones & missing some important ones). We restored it, reinstalled it in Dundee & won an Engineering Heritage Award.

In the past 2 weeks, we submitted expert surveys and condition reports on a historic city landmark & a cherished park feature. These will hopefully guide future restoration efforts. If you have a project in mind & need help assessing feasibility, methods & costs, get in touch.

Just off to the foundry, the patterns for replacement gates damaged in an accident. The new castings will be a replica of the Victorian originals, so once they have been installed, we will check on them eveery 150 years or so! Feet for scale!

With all the focus on visitors to Windsor - we hope some of them took the time to admire the bandstand there that we designed, produced and installed as a 90th Birthday present for our late and much missed Queen Elizabeth II - who reportedly did like a bandstand!

Do you have a landscape feature that is tired and need of some TLC? Here's a walrus from the iconic Grand Fountain in Paisley - before and after the Lost Art treatment - and for which we won an award! Get in touch if we can help!

Our benches will act as a fine memorial to a life deserving of commemoration - and more important;y, they will be a lasting memorial. Do get in touch if you wish a long-lasting tribute to someone sadly missed.

After being unable to work for several months due to my bad mental health, today I had my first day back, and it went really well!! 😃

Just sorting some files, spotted some of our restoration projects - Wigan, Hawick, Hexham and Darlington. If you have or know of a #bandstand that needs bringing back to useful life, then you know who to call! Check our website for lots more examples!!

With Handsworth being featured in the news, we were reminded of our work there - reproducing some historic gates and supplying some of our Bassenthwaite benches that matched the original installations.

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