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The International Boatbuilding Training College will be hosting a trade stand at Norfolk’s hugely popular biennial weekend Country Fair at Holkham park. This year the fair is celebrating everything about the countryside - land, sea, and sky.

For more information see the event website www.holkhamcountryfair.co.uk

The IBTC will be exhibiting at the much-loved Harwich Maritime festival on July 27th. This year the festival will reflect both the town’s rich maritime history and its vibrant creative community, with an exciting sea and land based programme intended to attract thousands of people from across Essex and Suffolk.

Organised by Harwich Haven Authority, there will be over 50 traders, live entertainment and must-see water based activities going on throughout the day.

For more information see hha.co.uk/maritime-festival-2019

Come along and see the IBTC at Oulton Broad Nicholas Everitt Park on August 4th between 10.30am - 3pm

The IBTC will be exhibiting at the Countryfile Live event at Castle Howard from 15 - 18th August 2019. This will be the first Countryfile Live event to be held in the North and will promote the best of the northern countryside and regional farming, capturing the essence of the Yorkshire countryside.

For more information see the event website www.countryfilelive.com/castle-howard

We will be exhibiting at the annual FolkEast festival which takes place from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th August 2019.

Situated in the 300 acres of parkland site at Glemham Hall, in Suffolk the festival offers 7 music stagesas well as ceilidhs, Morris teams, song, dance and instrument workshops, sessions, mardling marquees, local ales & fine food as well as a vintage tea tent, storytelling, traditional craft & art stalls and demonstrations.

For more information see the event website folkeast.co.uk

The International Boatbuilding Training College sits on the northern shore of Lake Lothing, the tidal reach of the River Waveney, depicted in Ted Frost’s book “From Tree To Sea”, which chronicles the building of a wooden steam fishing boat.

Come and see first hand how wooden boats are built. Try your hand at a number of boat building activities such as roving, caulking and knot work. Watch demonstrations of steam bending, planking and the endangered skill of oar and spar making.

Talk to our instructors and students to find out more about our courses and what it is like to learn joinery and boat building at the IBTC.

Learn more about the projects we have been involved with this year for: The How Hill Trust; The Museum of the Broads; The Water, Mills and Marshes, The Excelsior Trust and Great Yarmouth Venetian Water Ways.

Opening Times

Saturday 14 September: 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday 15 September: 10:00 - 16:00

No booking required

For more information see www.heritageopendays.org.uk

Waves and Wheels, Transport at the Ness

We will be exhibiting at the London International Woodworking Festival Held in a brand new purpose built technical college (London Design & Engineering UTC ), we are perfectly geared up to deliver a range of demonstrations and seminars from some of the worlds most influential craftspeople across a range disciplines. Over the weekend you’ll be able to mingle with the crowds and enjoy a drink and a bite with likeminded folk and take one of our drop in classes. For something a little more in depth and hands on you can enrol in one of our premium 3 and 5 day short classes in the weeks before and after.

Classic Hand Tools & friends will be supporting the event to include tools and demonstrations from Lie Nielsen Toolworks and others yet to be announced.

Axminster Tools are supporting the event with demonstrations from Tormek, Veritas and UJK

More information can be found on the event website londoniwf.co.uk

We will be exhibiting at the North of England Woodworking & Power Tool Show which is the largest and longest established retail woodworking and power tool show in the Country.

For more information see the event website www.skpromotions.co.uk