Robert Radford Welch studied silversmithing at the Royal College of Art. Upon graduation in 1955, he left London for Gloucestershire countryside where he rented a small room in a disused 18th century Silk Mill in Chipping Campden.
He started out with just his drawing board, a sheet of paper and a pencil, and even slept on a camp bed in the same room as he worked.
The rest is history....