SMEE News SMEE and West Dean College (The General and the Particular)

For many years now SMEE have had a cordial and productive relationship with West Dean College of Arts and Design Craft and Conservation. Indeed many of you will have seen the results of their careful conservation work exemplified in the locomotive Jenny Lind at shows. Situated in its home on the West Dean estate near Chichester the college (photo 1) was set up by the estates owner Edward James. James expressed his fear in a letter to Aldous Huxley that after the war the techniques of many crafts would be lost and conceived the forming of an educational community on the estate to preserve and encourage these crafts and skills. Today West Dean situated in 65,000 acres offers MA degree and Diploma programmes in Conservation, Visual Arts and Historic Crafts…

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Model Engineer (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 4750

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