HELLO
We are Colin & Justine Hackney and Hackney Valley is the umbrella name for our full offering of building trades, crafts and creative products and services. These are centred around our home in West Wales where we are attempting to pursue a simpler life, with less financial burden and more time for creatvity, nature and land-based projects.
We are multi-skilled and you can contract, commission and fairly easily persuade us to get involved in any of the things below and probably many more. The images you see are all of our own work and we will happily connect you with people who will vouch for our abilities, reliability and honesty.
OUR POTTED HISTORY
In 2020, aided by the pandemic, we said goodbye to regular work, our lovely house and garden just outside Bristol & Bath, in North East Somerset, and the mortgage that came with them. We swapped them for a 1980s static caravan on the Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire border in rural West Wales. It came with a semi derelict slate farmhouse and four acres of land - all nestled in a beautiful valley at the end of a long track.
This website forms part of our journey to explore and fund new ways of living while trying to save a little slice of Welsh history.