08/07/2022
This month we’ve got a really special exhibition in our window, thanks to local craftsman and tool collector Omar Bhatia (). As per his notes: This exhibition is meant as a memorial to the men and women who worked in the furniture industry that was so important to the fabric of life back then. There were seven factories across the two villages of Beith and Lochwinnoch, that formed the hub of mechanised furniture making in Scotland
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Most of the tools in the exhibition come from the Garnock Valley and have remained here for over a century.