Fernie Forge


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2087 Highway #3, Fernie BC Canada
2087 State Highway 3 Fernie British Columbia V0B 1M5 CA
001 (250) 423-2671001 (250) 423-2671
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Originally trading as blacksmiths and wheelwrights, the forge was founded in 1893 in the United Kingdom by Henry Hungerford Barrett and is still owned and operated by the Barrett family. The heart of the business is now in historic Hosmer, East of Fernie in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where a purpose built workshop has been established. Sandra’s husband David is a fifth generation blacksmith. They have two children and have all become Canadian Citizens.

Sandra attended the first one year women into technology metalcraft course at Swindon College and received a Blacksmithing National Diploma. Under the guidance of Paul Allen FWCB LWCB LCGI, Sandra was accepted as a New Entrants Training Scheme apprentice at the National School of Blacksmithing in Hereford, where she obtained a certificate of training by the Countryside Agency as well as a certificate of competence from the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. In 2003 Sandra Barrett became the first lady blacksmith in Britain to be awarded the Frank Day Perpetual Trophy by the Guild of Wrought Ironwork Craftsmen of Wessex. Over 10 years later Fernie Forge has opened a second location in Fernie BC, Canada, where Sandra’s forgework is currently exhibited and sold in the “Eye of the Needle” gallery, together with work by other blacksmiths and artisans.

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