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* Dartington Crystal, A unique Factory, Visitors Centre, Glass Shop and Restaurant of world famous Dartington Crystal – the biggest employer in the town and now the only working glass factory left in the UK.
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Dartington and Crystal
The major employer today is Dartington Crystal, but the shops in the town centre also provide a source of employment.
Glassblowing | Glass blowers at Dartington Crystal
Based in Torrington in north Devon, England, Dartington Crystal manufactures crystal glassware using traditional Swedish glass blowing techniques.
A 46cm high replica FA Cup at Dartington Crystal
Dartington Crystal underwent another Management Buy Out in April 2006, safeguarding many skilled jobs in the area.
Dartington Crystal bought Scottish-based Caithness Glass out of receivership in October 2006 and also owns Royal Brierley Crystal which is based in the West Midlands.
Today Dartington Crystal is the major employer in Torrington and a very important to the South West, some Dartington Crystal is still produced in Torrington meaning the factory is the only working hand-made tableware producing crystal factory left in the UK, however, the company also sources ranges and items of ( especially machine-made ) crystal from overseas.
Dartington Crystal celebrated its 40th Birthday in June 2007.
* Dartington Crystal
His career has been in industry, with over 30 years at Board level of which the last 20 were as Managing Director of Dartington Crystal, prior to his retirement in 2000.
Dartington and unique
Dartington is also a major tourist attraction for the area, over 250, 000 people visit the site each year to see the unique Factory Experience, Visitors Centre, extensive Glass Shop and Restaurant.
Dartington and Centre
The estate comprises various schools, colleges and charitable and commercial organisations, including Schumacher College, The Arts at Dartington, the Dartington International Summer School of music, Research in Practice, Dartington School for Social Entrepreneurs and the Shops at Dartington ( formerly the Cider Press Centre ).
The Performance Centre ( PC ), completed in Summer 2010 towards the south of the campus is predominantly facility for the recently transferred Dartington College of Arts students.
The Young Foundation was established in 2005 following the merger of the Institute of Community Studies and the Mutual Aid Centre, both creations of Michael Young, later Lord Young of Dartington.
Dartington and Glass
A team of Scandinavian glass blowers came with him to Torrington, some of whom are still there to this day, and the factory opened in June 1967 under the name of Dartington Glass.
Dartington and world
At Dartington she led the artistic developments, although she and Leonard also continued their world wide interests.
Dartington and famous
Dartington Crystal's most famous products date back to the 1970s, Frank Thrower's Scandinavian influenced designs such as Sharon, Exmoor, and Dimple set Dartington out from the others who concentrated on the now seemingly ' old fashioned ' cut crystal styles.
It is the most internationally famous part of The Dartington Hall Trust.
Dartington and –
In England her evolving major project, ' Dartington Hall ', was for Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst in Devon ( 1932 – 37 ).
* Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington ( 9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002 ), British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term " meritocracy "
Heckstall-Smith completed his education at Dartington Hall School before reading agriculture – and co-leading the university jazz band – at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 1953.
At 15, feeling that her upbringing had been too liberal – her parents " didn't believe in restraint " – Coleman enrolled at Dartington Hall School in Devon.
Sir Arthur Champernowne ( 1524 – 29 March 1578 ) was a politician and Vice-Admiral of the West who lived at Dartington Hall in Devon, England.
* Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington ( 1915 – 2002 ), British sociologist, social activist and politician
Dartington and now
In 1991, Schumacher College of Dartington, England, was founded and now provides an MSc in Holistic Science.
Dartington is home to an obsolete cider press ( now the centrepiece of a shopping centre named for it ), the Cott Inn, a public house dating from 1320, and Dartington Hall.
Dartington and only
Leach was instrumental in organizing the only International Conference of Potters and Weavers in July 1952 at Dartington Hall, where he had been working and teaching.
Dartington and working
The scheme was run by Dick Kitto who had been working at Dartington.
Dartington and left
Renbourn left the band to pursue a long-term ambition of studying classical music, taking up a place at Dartington College of Arts.
Dartington and UK
She is a patron of Soundart Radio in Dartington, Devon, UK
* 1932: High Cross House, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK
Schumacher College was founded in 1991 in Dartington, Totnes, Devon, UK by Satish Kumar, John Lane and others.
He has been a regular invitee at leading UK literary festivals like Hay, Keswick, Dartington Hall, Salisbury and Wimbledon, invariably speaking to large audiences.
He gives recitals and masterclasses throughout the UK, including at Roger Argente's " Bone Lab " at the Dartington Festival.
Dartington and .
Morris's ideas were adopted by the New Education philosophy in the late 1880s, which incorporated handicraft teaching in schools at Abbotsholme ( 1889 ) and Bedales ( 1892 ), and his influence has been noted in the social experiments of Dartington Hall during the mid-20th century and in the formation of the Crafts Council in 1973.
On October 27, 2000, he staged the Real Turner Prize Show at the Dead End Gallery in his home, concurrent with three shows with the same title in England ( London, Falmouth and Dartington ) and one in Germany in protest against the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize.
He has given master classes and recitals at Dartington International Summer School for many years, and was the third husband of Martha Argerich.
He studied art at the Dartington College of Arts and the Oxford School of Art, then part of the Oxford College of Technology, which eventually became Oxford Brookes University.
The son of Robert Hurrell Froude, archdeacon of Totnes, James Anthony was born at Dartington, Devon on 23 April 1818.
The twentieth century saw the opening of schools such as Summerhill and Dartington and the establishment of The Peckham Experiment.
During the early 1970s Dartington school ran a scheme, known as The Terrace, with Yorkshire County Council overseen by Alec Clegg to provide education to pupils who were required to stay on at school due to the raising of the leaving age.
He became a British citizen in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School, for a year before being expelled due to disruptive behaviour.
He had a special passion for horses, having enjoyed riding at school in Dartington, where he sometimes slept in the stables.
He was educated at Dartington Hall School and subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music, where one of his contemporaries and close friends was Malcolm Arnold, who composed in 1940 a Grand Fantasia for flute, trumpet and piano for him and a pianist, premiered in February 1941.
The Dartington Hall Trust, near Totnes, Devon, England, is a charity specialising in the arts, social justice and sustainability.
The Trust currently runs 16 charitable programmes, including The Dartington International Summer School and Schumacher College.
The Dartington Hall Trust is based on a estate near Dartington in south Devon.
In 1935 The Dartington Hall Trust, a registered charity, was set up in order to run the estate.
Until June 2010 the estate was also home to Dartington College of Arts, prior to the College's contentious merger with University College Falmouth.
Dartington International Summer School is a department of The Dartington Hall Trust.
Dartington Hall School, founded in 1926, offered a progressive coeducational boarding life.
Lucian Freud attended the school for two years, and his brother Clement Freud was also a pupil at Dartington.
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