SMITH & HARRIS - 31 Hatton Garden, London, EC1 N8DH

Dennis Smith and Gareth Harris working on Ox Eye cups for Magdalen College, Oxford; and a Masters gift for the Saddler’s company.

With a broad range of experience serving the needs of City institutions; the military; and religious institutions of many faiths; as well as a broad spectrum of private clients; we can offer our customers our personal attention from first contact to delivery.

From our Hatton Garden workshop, (pictured right), we offer a complete service- from consultation and design, through manufacture, to a finished, engraved piece, hand made in-house.

When not smithing, Dennis is a lecturer at London Metropolitan University’s Silversmithing and Jewellery department. He is a keen musician, playing guitar and blues harmonica, which he also teaches when not playing. Dennis is an avid follower of Rugby Union. He is married with two sons.

Gareth is an amateur historian interested in urban history, and a Blue Badge guide. He has published a guide to Spitalfields in East London, and has been a contributor on 'Kaleidoscope' and 'Mapping the Town' for the BBC. He is an administrator of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust; chairman of the Conservation Area Advisory Group at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets; and will be chairman of the Silver Society in 2005. He is married with two sons.