ESTABLISHED 1953
We like making. The process and the result. It’s what we do.
A Wardle & Co are an independent manufacturers and lost wax casters based in the heart of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. Combining traditional manufacturing and fabrication techniques with the latest in technology to provide a bespoke service to all our customers.
Manufacturing and fabrication in precious and non-precious metals for three generations making for a wide variety of specialists in all fields.
THE TEAM
A diverse and broad ranging set of skills in the team are unified by the love of making things.
With a comprehensive range of staff on site we still maintain the tradition of using varied and many types of outworkers (self employed crafts people) which add to the breadth of skills and items we can make; keeping valuable skills alive.
Manufacturing and fabrication in precious and non-precious metals for three generations making for a wide variety of specialists in all fields.
Nick
MD and in charge of the overall manufacturing and fabrication of all things we make.
Alex
Makes items of all sorts and fabrication, from jewellery to statues, finishing and all things technical.
Mary
Longest serving member of the team having been working in the business since the 1970’s, in charge of everything financial.
Natalia
The most customer facing member of the team, responsible for the orders, progress and the office.
Jack
A Caster, he started as a teenager when he came for a job trial and never left, he has done all the casting roles.
Amy
Fine art graduate, a bench jeweller, in charge of the workshop team on the benches and the waxing shop.
Tristan
Youngest member of the team and assists Jack and Amy in production. Off to university soon and a dancer, keep your eyes out for him in the commonwealth games opening!
Cheyenne
Jewellery graduate and enthusiast she is both a bench worker plus in wax production.
Lisa
Jeweller graduate and art/illustration graduate, bench worker plus in the wax production team.
Dion
Only part time as is an artist and sculptor who recently completed his Masters Degree.