WORTLEY TOP FORGE MINIATURES

PART TWO

aul left the industry at a time when, he says, British manufacturing began to decline. He eventually retrained as a social worker. Retirement brought him back to engineering. He built and equipped a small workshop and began re-learning his skills. “I set about re-learning many of the engineering skills from my earlier apprenticeship days in order to make an adolescent’s dream of building a model traction engine become an old man’s reality,” says Paul, who