Family Firm Finds Way to Turn Its Past Into a Future
Western Daily Press › February 24, 2011
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David Clensy visits Thomas Ware & Sons, the evocative sole survivor of Bristol's once proud leather industry Step inside the seemingly time-locked Bedminster tannery of Thomas Ware & Sons, and you immediately feel as if you have stepped back through a time warp to the 1940s.
Walking across the cobbled courtyard, you get in1triguing glimpses of Victorian warehouses filled with countless drying leather hides, hung from meat-hooks.See the full content of this document
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Family Firm Finds Way to Turn Its Past Into a Future
It is a sight that can't have changed at all since the company's foundation on this Coronation Road site in the 1840s. Step into the factory office, and the time-vacuum continues. The office of the firm's managing director, Marcus Brearley is dominated by a heavy oak desk, an open fire, and a large leather armchair.
The 64-year-old boss sits behind his desk...See the full content of this document
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