Steve Cooper, Blacksmith, Pershore. Things on sticks, repairs, small jobs.
Steve Cooper Blacksmith, Pershore

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Small iron pieces for the garden, made by hand at the forge in Pershore. Plus repairs, if yours is broken.

Plant your own Ring Steve
Illustration, photo to come

What goes on a stick

Leaves, roses, birds. Whatever you fancy, really.

Stick it in a border, a pot, a bit of lawn that needs cheering up. Made by hand, so no two come out the same. Tell me what you're after and I'll have a go.

Iron, steel, copper, brass, bronze. Finished in black wax, left to go rusty on purpose, or polished up.

The pictures here are small pieces I've already made. Proper photos of the garden ones are on their way.

Forged copper lilies and leaves on tall stems, standing on the workshop bench Three sprays of forged steel leaves laid out on the bench A bouquet of forged roses with a coloured heat finish on the workshop bench

Plant your own

Pick a top, a height and a finish.

It's a way to start a conversation, not a shop. Every piece is made by hand, so what you get will be its own thing. No prices here. Ask Steve.

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A black garden gate with scrolls along the top, standing open beside a stone pier A curved iron handrail beside steps up to a pale blue front door

Repairs

If it's iron and it's broken, bring it round.

Gate dropped? Railing snapped? Grandad's old boot scraper in two pieces? Send me a photo and I'll tell you straight if I can mend it. If I can't, I'll say so.

Don't apologise for bothering me with something small. That's the job now.

Send me a photo

Same hands that did these

The joke's at the top. The skill's down here.

I've restored the Golden Gates of Wood Norton and made a war horse out of horseshoes. I started in 1989 in a garage behind 13 Bridge Street. That's still my address. Funny how it goes.

The Golden Gates of Wood Norton closed between stone piers, black ironwork with a gilded overthrow and crowns
Golden Gates of Wood Norton. My biggest restoration, back in place July 2019.
The War Horse memorial, a soldier standing beside a horse made of horseshoes, in a garden
War Horse memorial, Abbey Park, Pershore. Horseshoes, many donated, one from the First World War.
A large gilded iron overthrow being lifted by a lorry crane, with a man in overalls watching
A gilded overthrow going in by crane. Just to show the scale.
A steel phoenix sculpture with wings raised against a blue sky A curved staircase seen from above with an ornate black balustrade and brass handrail A black ironwork veranda with a curved lead roof on a white period house Silhouette ironwork of a church tower, trees and swans fixed to a gable wall
Steve Cooper at the bench in his workshop, working a drill on a length of iron

Steve

Steve Cooper, AWCB DipWCF

Fifth generation. Blacksmiths, farriers and wheelwrights. Apprenticed in 1983, on my own since 1989. Associate of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, Diploma of the Worshipful Company of Farriers.

"I love my job and being Pershore's Blacksmith makes it even more so."

How it works

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