The Hampshire Coppice Craftsmens Group
"Putting Life into your Landscape"
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The Hampshire Coppice Craftsmens Group has recently secured a grant from the Heritage Lottery Initiative
The grant will be used to
- Promote Crab Wood and the hazel coppice industry heritage
- Engage the local community in the traditional woodland crafts of Hampshire
- Investigate the heritage of Hampshire's coppice industry
- Record the histories of local coppice workers
- Produce an exhibition of Hampshire's coppice industry
for more information on the above subjects click the links
For an outline of the Project please visit the LHI site
If you would like to contribute your reminiscences, or suggest someone, please contact us
Hampshire Coppice Craftsmens Group has been actively promoting the traditional coppice crafts of Hampshire both at shows and special events run buy the Group. HCCG has run a number of events In Crab Wood over the past 2 years for information on one of these events look at 'Walk in the woods'. These events have been designed to demonstrate to the public that the coppice industry in Hampshire if still very much alive.
The group has been active at throughout the county at organized shows since the group’s inception in 2003, with 2007 being very good despite the bad weather. For more information on Past shows look at the events pages.
Investigate the heritage of Hampshire's coppice industry
As part of the Local Heritage Initiative HCCG has been investigating the historical aspects of the coppice industry such as the products that were produced within the county of Hampshire. As part of the Display some of these have been recreated and pictures of these can be seen here. HCCG would like to thank Les Skinner of Bootle (one of the last traditional Barrel hoop makers left) and Peter Moors of the Dorset Coppice Group for the chair.
Record the histories of local coppice workers
As a part of the Local heritage initiative HCCG has purchased a camcorder to record the histories and memories of the coppice workers in Hampshire, both the older members of the group and those just starting out in the industry have been recorded to give a good over view of the past the a look to the future.
These records will form part of the Wessex film & sound archivea permanent record of the history of coppicing allowing others to understand coppicing and its history.
The second part if this is to produce a short film that will form part of the mobile exhibition that the coppice group can take to Shows it is hope to have this up available for the 2008 show season.
Produce an exhibition of Hampshire's coppice industry
The exhibition will be the show case for the coppice industry in Hampshire allowing craftsmen to demonstrate the work as well as allowing members of the public to watch a short film about the history of the coppice industry. Once complete this exhibition will be available to members of the Coppice group that are demonstrating at a shows. Progress is being made with the shelters and it is hoped to have this ready for the 2008 show season. For pictures of the shelters and the design of the barrel tops Have a look here
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