Copper work has a bit of history round here, in Cornwall. I was doing a bit of research and found this. "Herbert Dyer, 1898-c1974, worked in Mousehole, near Penzance, during the 1920s, influenced by the Newlyn School of craftsmen near Penzance, Cornwall. He had joined the Royal Horse Artillery in 1916, was promoted to Gunner-fitter, then Sergeant Instructor Armourer. He started copper work with trench art. After service in France, Belgium, and Egypt he returned to Cumbria in 1922 but had to walk south to find work, setting up a workshop behind a blacksmiths in Mousehole and starting by making items to suit local needs. Economic conditions ended his work around 1931..."... The bit i like is him being in Cumbria and just walking South, to a bit that must have felt a lot warmer, and stopped, well if he had walked another few miles he would have been in the sea....
http://www.oldcopper.org/newlyn.htm
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