Trained and working in the ‘60’s as a secondary school domestic science teacher teaching needlework, Audrey Johns made her first small pair of curtains for the family on the kitchen table at home. A request from a neighbour for a pair just the same soon lead the village to the door with similar requests.

 

Switching careers and skills to become a graphic designer for the newly opened Torch Theatre at Milford Haven in the ‘70’s Audrey continued to make her soft furnishings under the label ‘Lamp House’, moving into an empty Neyland High Street former ‘bookies‘ shop, such was the demand for increased workroom space.

 

In the 80’s, larger High Street premises were soon followed by a bold move to a small

enterprise industrial estate at Brunel Quay – from where Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s first narrow gauge railway tracks had pioneered running trains from Neyland to Paddington – with a few close friends becoming her first staff members.

 

The 90’s saw a move next door to a larger industrial unit, a former sail loft on the quayside at Brunel Quay which benefitted from larger floor space, enough to accommodate the by then, dozen staff.

 

Not content with early success, Audrey balanced time away from the business to study for a degree in Fine Art at Carmarthen Art College becoming a successful fine art painter in her own right, a passion for which she continues to paint and exhibit today.