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Restoring Finger Post Signs At East Melbury’s Fine Art Foundry

Alfred visits Stephen Coles of Coles Castings in East Melbury to see how he’s restoring Dorset’s traditional round-topped metal finger post signs.

Stephen is in demand. Maintenance contractors sometimes damage the wayfinders and one has just been taken from School Lane in Melbury Abbas.

A sign being cast

The mould being removed

Stephen with a finished sign

When life returns to normal, Stephen hopes to encourage more metalworking artists to his White Pit Lane workshop.

Listen at 20:44.