The Ethical Conservation and Restoration Policy we developed was adopted as a best practice standard across the industry, and we consistently pioneered new techniques as every new challenge was found – either rediscovering traditional craft techniques long since lost, or employing the latest technologies to solve very modern problems involving traditional materials.
As our reputation for this combination of traditional metalworking skills and modern engineering practice grew, we were increasingly asked by architects, heritage bodies and the construction industry to look at structural and architectural metalwork. This work grew steadily, and architectural metalwork eventually became the mainstay of our work.
Having been founded in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, the company quickly expanded with new workshops in Bristol, allowing us to offer a genuinely nationwide service. In 2007 we moved our Bristol operation
to new, bigger workshops nearby.
Today’s Dorothea Restorations is well-established as one of the leading authorities in all areas of specialist metalwork. We still have that same passion for our work, and are still building on the principles, the skills, the enterprise and the inventiveness that inspired the founders more than 30 years ago.