Blacksmith Collection (page 4)

Macedonia - Blacksmith shoeing a Buffalo Date: circa 1910

Gretna Green Anvil and Richard Rennison
Richard Rennison - the Gretna Green Anvil Priest 1926 - 1940, pictured with books recording over 2000 marriages overseen at the Old Blacksmiths Shop at Gretna in seven years

Harlestone Smithy
A corner of the stone-built village of Harlestone, Northamptonshire, England, with a glimpse of its old smithy (blacksmiths). Date: late 1950s

Forging Wrought Iron
Forging wrought iron gates. Date: 1960s

Claverdon Blacksmith s
The old smithy (blacksmiths shop) at Claverdon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1950s

Dunchurch Forge
The Old Forge, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, England, reputed to be the original smithy on which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow based his poem The Village Blacksmith (1842). Date: 1950s

Auld Smiddy Road House
The Auld Smiddy Road House, a modern roadhouse beside the Old Blacksmiths Shop at Greta Green, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Cleaning a Hoof
A farrier cleaning a horses hoof before fitting a new horseshoe. Date: 1960s

Fitting a Hot Horseshoe
A farrier putting on a hot horseshoe. Date: 1960s

The Marriage House, Coldstream Bridgehead, Berwickshire, Scotland, where up to a hundred years ago Blacksmith Weddings took place; the smithy was the priest! Date: 1950s

Pangbourne Smithy
The lovely old smithy (blacksmiths) at Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Note the nice fat chimney! Date: 1930s

East Dean Farrier
The old Farriers Shop at East Dean, Sussex, England. Above the door can be seen the last yoke used by oxen in Sussex. Date: 1930s

Blacksmiths Interior
The interior of a country farriers at Hatfield Peveril, near Chelmsford, Essex, England, with its miscellany of tools and equipment. Date: 1930s

Dunderpate and his friend Susan meet a blacksmith who explains what not letting the grass grow under your feet really means. Dunderpate is dismayed to learn that it means working hard. Date: 1938

The bandit, Antonio Gomez Rivera
Antonio Gomez Rivera, El Herrero (The Blacksmith), is flanked by two police officers following his capture in 1908. 1908

Female Blacksmith
A German woman blacksmith heating her irons in the furnace. Date: early 1930s

View of the Smithy at Ulrome, East Yorkshire
View of the Smithy at the village of Ulrome, near Driffield, East Yorkshire. Date: 1950s

Ole. Tonnesen, blacksmith and wagon shop, Iowa

Foundry mark, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A foundry mark in the blacksmiths shop at Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales

Blacksmith in his forge, working on a horseshoe
A young blacksmith in his forge, working on a horseshoe, at the Black Country Museum, Birmingham, West Midlands

Blacksmiths Shop at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway
Blacksmiths shop at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, East London. In 1870, Thomas Barnardo set up a home for destitute boys at 18-26 Stepney Causeway

Rustic wedding in Kent
A rustic wedding in Kent -- the bride sits on a horse-drawn cart which has been decorated with garlands, and receives a lucky horseshoe from the village blacksmith

Blacksmith shoeing a horse
A Blacksmith changes the shoes on a working horse. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

England / Abinger Hammer
The blacksmith whose motto is " By me you know how fast you go" strikes the clock and indicates the historical importance of ironworking to Abinger Hammer in Surrey

Medieval German Smithy
A scene from the life of the legendary German romantic hero Eppelein von Gailingen (1310- 1381)

Chinese Blacksmith
A travelling blacksmith in China

Military Blacksmith
If horses are essential to yesterdays armies, the blacksmith is essential to keep them well shod : this marechal ferrant is at work in a French cavalry camp

Chinese Blacksmith 2
A Chinese blacksmith at work

Java Blacksmith
A Javanese blacksmith at his anvil

Kent Blacksmith / 1907
Geerings Forge, in Rolvenden, Kent

Broadside / Blacksmith
A smith. These tradesman are preachers in the City of London, 1647. A satirical broadside on non- conformist preaching in London

Costume / Romano-Briton
A Romanised Briton who has adopted the Roman lifestyle, and a ferrylte (blacksmith) who hasn t

Filing Horses Foot
A Welsh blacksmith at work filing a horses hoof on a farm in Carnarvonshire

Emergency Job / Blacksmith
A horsewoman watches while a blacksmith re-shoes her mount

Racial / Gipsies / Smith
German gipsies, one of whom is working as a blacksmith

Blacksmith Scrap
A blacksmith stands with the tools of his trade

17th Century Smithy
A blacksmith at work in his smithy, powered by a water wheel; logging and other activities are also taking place

Youth Learns Fear / Grimm
THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS - the boy meets (and beats) the fierce old man

Runaway couple get married at Gretna Green
A runaway couple get married at Gretna Green, literally striking the iron while it is hot. Gretnas runaway marriages began in 1753, following a change in the English law that did not apply in Scotland

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