Durlacher Fine Art www.durlacherfineart.com For fine oriental and Vietnamese Art.
 Natasha specializes in modern Vietnamese paintings of the highest quality.

Tim Hall www.timhallphotographer.com For imaginative and beautifully composed photography.
View Tim Hall’s exquisite and quite unusual portraits and photographs of the Far East, India, North African desert and other venues.

New Baby Company www.newbabycompany.com  Provides first class, up to date professional, practical and personal advice for Mothers and Mothers to be running ante- and post-natal courses.

Combe Manor www.combemanor.com The venue for wedding receptions, private and corporate parties.
A classically styled Georgian Manor house is quintessentially English with it’s Norman Church and it’s 300 yr old barn.  Lying in the valley, in woodlands and fields. Very traditionally English.  A family run business to the highest of  traditional British standards.   E-mail them combemanor@aol.com, visit their web site or call either David or Mary Russell on +44 (0)1488 668 229 for details.

Jane Asher www.jane-asher.co.uk  Jane Asher designs and makes the finest birthday, wedding cakes and all celebration and special occasion cakes.
They may be designed in almost any theme - golf,  racing cars, people etc

The Old Hall Bookshop www.oldhallbooks.com.  For rare antiquarian books and special editions books.
Contact John Townsend at The Old Hall Bookshop, 32 Market Place, Brackley Northants, NN13 5DP +44 (0)1280 704 146.  E-mail him with your inquires as John Townsend can also advise on valuation of your library or find those other very special second hand (including some old maps) or new editions you are looking for

 James Max  www.jamesmax.net  James Max (Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentice)  has a weekly news column on Thursdays in “The Times on Line”.   James writes on topics that matter and interest us as individuals.  His comments pull no punches and he lays his well argued opinions on the line.  Well worth subscribing to (free) to read his views and learn from his experiences.    

Homesources www.homesources.co.uk This site has been set up to gather notes by householders engaged in home improvements and finding furniture.  It is useful site to source requirements with images of what can be done by the individual as well as the designer and furniture that is available.  Most sites on Homesources have been found by the Web master or recommended to Homesources by others users.

Manor Bindery www.manorbindery.co.uk  For false book backs and dummy books on false bookcase cupboard doors.
They have personal  access to a fine, private, antiquarian library from which they have taken their own original book back mouldings.

Time Watch www.timewatch.co.uk  For a business use to track consultants time and their costs.  The program enables the user to have a close look at time on jobs.
Time Watch have been writing programs for many years and have mastered the technique.

Financial Tools www.ftools.dircon.co.uk  Computer maintenance and software installation.
Specializing in networks for firms in the London and home counties. They are highly experienced and give a unique personal service (often  working throughout the night to get the system up and running).

Pep Technologies www.peptech.co.uk  A high quality firm of manufacturers and suppliers of customised computers.
A small firm that build computers individually for clients to their precise specifications.  They give a very personal back up service and up to three years warranty.

A Touch of Brass www.atouchofbrass.co.uk   Quality modern and traditional Georgian style brass grills, handles, brass work and hardware.

Mr Resistor www.mr-resistor.co.uk   Supplies of a very extensive range of concealed bookcase lighting and a wide variety of light and other electrical fittings for the building, joinery and affiliated trades.

Crabtree Kitchens www.crabtreekitchens.co.uk   Crabtree has a fine reputation and a wonderful product line in kitchens.

Katharine Pooley www.katharinepooley.com For complete home furnishing and comprehensive, specialist, luxury interiors.
At 160 Walton Street London SW3 2JL +44(0) 0207 584 3223.  Katharine Pooley’s selections are of highest quality, individually chosen, of very exclusive ranges for the house hold, luxury goods, gifts and exquisite Oriental jewellery.

Dower and Hall www.dowerandhall.com  Design and manufacture a varied collection of ready made and bespoke, exclusive, jewellery.

Lea & Sandeman www.londonfinewine.co.uk Stock the finest selections of Continental and New World wines.

Marycliff www.marycliff.co.uk  Marycliff  innovative on line keyboard lessons or at home with her CD. 

Purple and Fine Linen Ltd www.purpleandfinelinen.com  A well established firm with a reputation for the highest quality and finest Irish linen.

Papers and Paint www.papers-paints.co.uk  will give you personal advice when you buy your paint

Paint Specialist    www.colourman.com  The specialist in the use of paint / and colours in historic buildings and in advising on, and supplying for, contemporary situations.

Polyview www.polybytes.com.  An excellent program which reduces the size of images for the web and files them where you want them as they are converted.

Nero  www.nero.com  Nero to burn backups onto disc, a simple and effective software program.

 Finesse Furniture  www.finessefurniture.co.uk/ Stock the finest, handmade, first class quality, exotic hardwood furniture.

 Finesse Furniture www.rosewoodfurniture.co.uk  Importers and retailers of beautifully handcrafted, top quality, rosewood furniture.

 Joiners Information Centre www.joiners.info   the new online directory that helps you find local joiners.  Use their quick search menu to select the link in your area and then click go.  Thistle’s Note is that this site is still under development but may help you to find assistance in your home area.

   Library Designs www.librarydesigns.com is a site directory of libraries and designs in North America and the UK.  A very useful site to locate a suitable firm or to glean ideas and concepts for  your own library.

Hedleys Humpers www.hedleyshumpers.com +44 (0)20 8965 8733 have offices in London, Paris and New York.  They pack and ship worldwide and have often collected bookcases from us for shipment   aboard for our customers.

   A Buckfield & Sons www.abuckfield.com
Are joinery specialists in windows, doors, staircases and custom made and designed bookcases and cabinets.

   Daro Factors Ltd   www.daro.com 020 8510 4000 Suppliers to the joinery and building industry of a very wide variety of traditional and modern hardware, fixtures and fittings

   James Latham  www.lathamtimber.co.uk well established firm of wood merchants supplying top quality mdf, ply, and soft wood and a variety of hardwoods and other products for the joinery and building trade.

 Simon Horn  www.simonhorn.co.uk is a designer and manufacturer of fine wooden beds and bedroom furniture.  Founded over 25 year ago they had the original concept for the style of beds which are now so popular and widely copied.

  Alistair Erskine www.alistairerskine.com is a highly talented and very experienced decorative painter with years of experience.

Modern Sofa  http://www.rezon8living.com If you are looking for a stylish,modern sofa   , look no further than rezon8 living.  Choose any style, colour and shape at rezon8 living, where the modern sofa  has made its way into the 21st Century.

Interior Design School  http://www.sheffield.edu  .eudSheffield School of Interior Design is a completely unique interactive distance learning course in interior design and decorating.