Finch Foundry

There’s a lot going on in autumn at Finch Foundry

For Hallowe’en we will be offering a fun children’s trail during the week leading up to Hallowe’en and there will also be spooky storytelling in the forge on Saturday, October 27th.

Blacksmiths are a big part of the history of Finch Foundry, so much so that every year we celebrate St Clement’s Day with as many as we can.

Traditionally St Clement’s Day was set up as an extra holiday between All Hallow’s Day and Christmas  and was adopted by the blacksmiths because of St Clement’s demise by way of an anchor. It was a day of fun and laughter with someone dressing as Old St Clem and being paraded around the town - all the money collected was then donated to the local pub so the celebration could go on long into the night.

To celebrate, on Saturday, November 24th we will be hosting the usual fun and occasional big bangs with themed competitions such as the great snail race where the blacksmiths are challenged to make a snail in the fastest time, items for sale and the firing of the anvil to test it for weakness in preparation for the coming year.

As well as all this, we will be dressing the shop for Christmas so you’ll have the opportunity to do some gift shopping and the tearoom will be serving soup and hot drinks to make sure you don’t get too cold when watching the blacksmiths at work. We will also be doing the usual regular talks and demonstrations of the machinery in the forge.