Wrought Iron Architectural Metalwork
Designed & manufactured in the U.K
By: Chris Topp & Co Ltd, North Yorkshire
Tel: 01845 501415
Nationality:
British
Training:
BSc. Honours Civil Engineering with mining.
March 2010 – Refresher Counter Balance Lift Truck
December 2011 - First Aid – Work place trained
Holds a valid CSCS card
Experience:
1970-72 Employed by British Waterways Board as maintenance engineer, working on eighteenth and nineteenth century structures, including canals and reservoirs.
1972-74 Working freelance, with friends, as a contractor to industrial museums. Specialists in steam shovels.
1974 – 1982 Director, Dorothea Restorations Engineers Diversified into architectural metalwork refurbishment and architectural cast ironwork.
1978 - Director, Chris Topp & Co
1984 - Director, The Real Wrought iron Company
2009 - Director, The Iron Work Studio
2009 - Director, National Heritage Ironwork Group
Awards:
BABA - Addy Taylor Cup
Company awarded by the Copper Development Association – Copper in Architecture Award.
The Company has received many awards over the years for craftsmanship.
Other :
Chris Topp regularly gives lectures on ironwork and renovation to, for example, postgraduate students in conservation at the University of York's School of Archaeology, Newcastle University, Herriot Watt University, Historic Scotland, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
