Elizabeth Knight of Olney used to give talks on the above, and produced a 24
page book with the above title; I bought mine from her after she gave a talk on
it at a local lace day, in 1994. Mr Armstrong died in 1943. The business's
premises, built in 1928, were then cleared, with most of the bobbins and
contents being destroyed, though some went to the local museum. They are now
flats, but it seems the carvings have survived, though not all in situ. The
book is interesting - Mr A seems to have been quite a character - and suggests
that lacemaking might have survived on a more or less commercial basis for
longer than one might have thought, though it seems that the BCWA dealt in more
than lace; the Lace Guild has an advertisement for (as far as I remember)
tinned foods and other things it sold.
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