To help celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and 400 years of glassmaking in Stourbridge, West Midlands, ‘MAD’ Inventor Robert Merlyn Farwell 65 is hosting a 'Bostin Black Country Day Out' in London
Mixing a 1/3 size replica of the Stourbridge Lion *, an ex-steam-boat, a portable glass furnace holding 10 kgs of molten glass, and some of the country’s master glassmakers the day promises to be yet another first in the Jubilee celebrations
Sailing from Kew to Westminster to Greenwich and back. “Serious” glassmaking on the boat will be from 11.30 – 1.00 at Westminster Pier and 2.00 – 3.30 at Greenwich.
This is a first for artists such as Richard Golding (Station Glass), Vic Bamforth, Jake Mee (Smithbrook Glass Blowing), Ian Bamforth (Stourbridge Glass Blowers), Anona Wyi, Kayleigh Young (Young`s Glass) and Charlotte Clarke.
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Notes for the press:
* The Stourbridge Lion, built in Stourbridge in 1828, was the first steam locomotive to operate in the United States, it was also one of the first to operate outside of Britain.
Merlyn Farwell, the magician from Tiswas, designs and makes energy efficient equipment for studio glassmakers from his workshop, Camelot Castle in Stourbridge. He built the replica of the Stourbridge Lion in 2011 and now uses it as a portable base for his smallest combined furnace.
If you wish to come along and see for yourself what can be done when you mix skill, madness and celebration phone Merlyn on 07973653612
Email: Merlyn@StourbridgeLion.co.uk
Tel 01384 374829 Mob 07973 653612
www.StourbridgeLion.co.uk
