I’m trying to think of unique British industry/craftsman, which are run by the individual.

I’m thinking people who hand make bicycles (its a little bit obvious though), the chappy in Cambridge who still traps eels by hand. The more quaint the better.

Can anyone think of anyone?

Hedge laying.
Thatchers (roofing variety)

dry stone wallers?

Those people that hand paint billboards/adverts. Not many of them about

Thatching.

Kiltmakers? Bagpipe makers? Tweed?

Asset-stripping care homes?

Or collecting reed for thatching…

The Norfolk Reed Cutters Association

tarmac driveways ……

Pub sign painters/artists

Parquet Flooring 🙂

Dogging.?

I’m thinking people who hand make bicycles (its a little bit obvious though), the chappy in Cambridge who still traps eels by hand.

Sorry to be a pain but he’s from Ely, not Cambridge.

Being Simon Cowell.

Mars bar fryer
Beremeal miller
Freelance librarian
Provider of fake Burberry

Thanks to everyone apart from Mr. Woppit and BigbutSlimmerbloke. Every thread on here seems to turn into a kind of novelty blackadder episode at the moment.

The guy I get my custom bass strings from, Malcolm Newton @

http://www.newtonestrings.com/about.htm

bell founding? Not many bell founders left in England – run by a master founder

A Cooper.

Making barrels that is, not telling jokes.

Morris Dancing supplies!

Church roof lead-ers?

Putting the hole into the middle of stotties.

Actually, beremeal miller is such a unique craft there’s only one that I know of, on a fairly remote scottish island, milling a grain only produced on that island, and milling it in a mill powered by a waterwheel.
I must have misunderstood your use of the terms “unique”, “individual” and “quaint”

wheelsmith?

+1 for Bere meal miller. I surprised that anyone other than an Orcadian whould have heard of one. Nicher that a dusty niche thing.

http://www.birsay.org.uk/baronymill.htm

Custom pickups for electric guitars.

A friend had his replaced by some chap near him that does the pickup’s for some famous guitarist*. He said it transformed the sound.

*He did tell me who it was, but it was one of these new bands and I can’t keep track of the names.

troutie 🙂

The monks that make Buckfast

mcmoonter – ..and I had porridge from the Barony Mill for breakfast.
i’ve also dived Scapa Flow, got a jumper made of North Ron wool and a certificate from the papay-westray flight.

Manufacture of cunning plans…

Trains. That don’t run on time.

Shrimp Potters

BigButSlimmerBloke you are almost an Orcadian. Have you collected spoots or cut peat?

I lived in Orkney for 12 years. I knew Ray the miller.

Back to the OT, stone slate fencing.

more Scottish than British…

… Irn-Bru (rusty trout water) “Brewers?”

Sagger maker’s bottom knocker

kevin1911 – Member
Kiltmakers? Bagpipe makers? Tweed?

The Spanish have bagpipes, too. Kiltmakers is probably be British only, though.

Brewing real beer

Bodging stuff

stone slate fencing.

pshaw – as a near-Orcadian you’ll be familiar with stone slate roofing

Coracle manufacturer?