Hammer & Hand is a metal & jewellery collective based in Hobart, Tasmania and Bangalow, New South Wales.
March 11, 2012
Posted by Bruce Pringle
The demise of “The Crucible” The South Hobart Metal Workshops on the Rivulet track at the bottom of Angelsea St.
We leased these workshops off Boags (Well I did..cheap ! Thanks !)… for about 8 or 9 years , shared them with many Metalheads ..among them and in no particular order, John (the Knife) Hounslow, Richard Martin ,Mat Carney ,David Hurst (Bloke), Kerry Whittle (KerryX), Grant Maddock, Hossein Khadenbashi, Jai Hay, Ben Beames, Larrisa Kemp, Graeme Beer, Karl Quirk, Will James, Sean Willson and countless others who drifted through on various missions.. a great access workshop and allways a Friday knock-off gathering . Amazing talent and a lot of good times .. I went up there to have a look and found the Sheds demolished .. I will add pictures to this album as I find them .. If you have any please pass them on to me, also anyone I have missed ..we were many .
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- ……From this
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- to this…
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- Graeme Beer
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- Bruce Pringle,Ben Beames, Bogdan from the Ukrain , John Hounslow-Robinson
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- John Hounslow-Robinson
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- Bruce Pringle
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- Bruce and Sean Willson
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- Sean, Kerry Whittle and Bruce
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- Hossein….Sweet Man… RIP
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- Bronze by Sean Willson
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- Bruce Pringle and Sean Willson
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- Sean Willson
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- Grant Maddock and friends
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- Bruce Pringle’s Forge
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- Power Hammer
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- Larissa Kemp
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- Works by Mat Carney ….RIP
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- Thou Shalt Start
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- ’round the back
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- Plaster mould shop (the friday fire-drum spot ..Mat’s and Bruce’s friday chairs)
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- Mould making area
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- That little door was Hossein’s , then John Hounslows then Grants workshop space
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- Chalk n’ steel
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- Steel
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- The front gate of the Boags Southern Wharehouse and the “crucible” workshops
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- that beautiful tree….’Wisdom’
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- South Hobart Rivulet
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- Rivulet
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- Bruce n ‘Graeme Beer
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- Bar StoolsX 14
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- Entry to merry mayhem
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- Bruce’s bench and forge
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- New sheet of steel !
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- Bruces Power Hammer
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- ‘Little Lari’ ..Larissa Kemp in Mat’s workshop area
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- ben Beames
4 Comments
March 11, 2012
i can imagine the noise and smell and laughter and concentration and frustration and triumphs….finding the buildings gone must have been painful. great shot of you leaning on the lamp(?) Jen :o)
March 12, 2012
OHHHHHHHHH lovely so sad and celibratery.
Thank you for the lovly times i had there love love love
adam
February 21, 2017
For John Hounslow-Robinson.
I am the great-great-great-grandson on my mother’s side of Rev William Robinson Clark and happy to find that the talent and eccentricity gene of the Clark family (morphed into Lyon-Clark in 1911 by Deed Poll thanks to my great grandfather born William Lyon Clark) is alive and well in Tasmania.
I was born in Rhodesia and left at 17 to go to university and wound up after short spells in the UK living and working in Cape Town where I am still. I have a son and daughter in Australia, three granddaughters — two in Perth and one in Sydney and three more grandchildren by marriage in Amsterdam, Holland. I live in Kalk Bay, Cape Town and scrape by on a pension from 25 years of wage slavery with occasional income from freelance journalism. Anyway, good to meet you, so to speak.
Funnily enough I make friction folders for fun. Alas I have no space for a forge so have to do with blanks.
Keith Bryer
July 15, 2017
Hey Keith !
I have contacted Johnno and am waiting to hear back from him.
I am ex Capetownian myself and love Kalk Bay… My mate Pete has an ice-cream shop there!
Best wishes !
Bruce Pringle.
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