Tim - That is wonderful work - I will pass it in to Roger. It looks as though we may have taken on a rather larger project than we had initially anticipated! I see on the list is Chris Ashthorp of Severn stoke. I knew Chris and Graham Banks, who worked with him most of his life, still sorts out my guns from his workshop in Worcester. Here are a couple of photos of Chris taking delivery of a large barrel boring machine - which Graham says he never actually managed to get operational. For any of you who don't know Chris developed sleeving and got it accepted by the proof house as an approved way of replacing damaged barrels. His workshop in Severn Stoke has now been turned into a dwelling. I have fond memories of the workshop full of old lathes and drills and rusting barrels piled up everywhere. You actually had to walk on them to get to the back of the workshop where the work took place. It was no good leaving a gun there to be repaired otherwise it would disappear into this mountain of waiting guns - the trick was to say you were going on a shoot the following week then you stood a chance of getting it back. Having said all that his work was fantastic and any repair always worked. My only regret is that I didn't have the sense to photograph it for posterity. Chris is the guy in the woolly cardigan with his back to you in the first photo and the guy on the left in the second.
