Bradex
Sherborne --:--
The Bradex roundel: the Abbey tower, Sherborne, Dorset

Bradley Gunn · AI software engineer

BRADEX

of Sherborne, Dorset

Bradex stands for three things: identity, one hundred per cent, and quality. It is also where the things I make are kept.

The creations Play Echoes of Sherborne

  1. Identity

    Know who you are and where you are from, and put your name to what you do.

  2. One hundred per cent

    Whatever the work, all of it. Nothing held back and nothing by half.

  3. Quality

    Done properly or not at all. Made to stand close inspection, and to last.

The creations

Made in Sherborne,
one at a time.

By day I’m an AI software engineer. These are the things I make for myself: each one done properly, each one from Sherborne.

  1. No. I The Shirburnian Day-Date A watch · 1 of 1
  2. No. II Echoes of Sherborne A game · the real Sherborne
  3. No. III In the workshop Coming along

Creation No. I · A watch · 1 of 1

The Shirburnian
Day-Date.

Gold case, fluted bezel, jubilee bracelet, green dial. Day at twelve, date at three. The abbey tower under the twelve; the signature, Sherborne, Dorset and 1 of 1 above the six. Shirburnian is the word for someone from Sherborne. Made in Sherborne by Alex of Bean Shot. The hands keep Sherborne time.

Model
Shirburnian Day-Date
Edition
1 of 1
Dial
Green, gilt print
Case & bracelet
Gold, fluted bezel, jubilee
Made in
Sherborne, Dorset
Sherborne time
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Only one was made.

Sherborne at dusk from above, rebuilt street by street for Echoes of Sherborne: the Abbey and its tower, Ham-stone terraces, autumn trees Play

Creation No. II · A game

Echoes of Sherborne.

The first story: Pack Monday

Friday, 9 October. You step off the train into a town getting ready for its oldest fair, and some of the people who made it are walking its streets again: Aldhelm, Bishop Roger, Abbot Bradford, Sir Walter Raleigh, and a mason called Teddy Roe who may never have lived. On Sunday night, when the Abbey strikes twelve, the Band sets off with every pot and pan in Sherborne, loud enough, they say, to wake the dead.

The town is the real one. Every street is where OpenStreetMap puts it. Every building stands on its own footprint at the height the Environment Agency’s laser survey measured, roof pitch and all, and you can go through any front door in town. The history is real; the living people are made up.

Buildings
3,886, measured
Streets
175, all real
Trees
42,051, from LIDAR
Story
Eleven chapters, four days, side quests
Built with
three.js, OpenStreetMap, Overture, EA LIDAR
Plays on
Keyboard, pad or touch
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