History

I was lucky enough to go to an all-girls secondary school in 1963 when I was 11. I had always been fascinated by science, particularly chemistry, after watching a TV program about Louis Pasteur. The primary school I went to was

This photograph is of Second Lieutenant Hubert Whiteley, who died of wounds fighting on the Somme in the Great War, 1914-1918.     Our director Sally Ward (nee Whiteley) is his brother's granddaughter. Although she never knew him, a large print of this

One day back in the early 90’s, at Old Whiteley’s, we received a package from a famous London jewellers. Inside was a pair of scissors belonging to the Queen which needed repairing. . Not the first time we had worked on bespoke