Hammer Collection (page 7)

10 cwt steam hammer, front elevation Date: 1845

J Nasmyths patent 1 cwt steam hammer

Nasmyth steam hammer, c1847 Date: 1847

Anvil and base plate for a 25 cwt steam hammer, plan, front elevation and details

J Nasmyths patent steam hammer, front and side elevations

2 ton steam hammer
Foundation, base-plate, anvil for a 2 ton steam hammer, plan elevation and details Date: 1847

5 cwt steam hammer, J Nasmyths patent, front elevation and detail

Anvil and base plate for 80 cwt steam hammer, plan, elevation and details Date: 1850

Steam hercules with Wilsons patent valve, side elevation Date: 1851

J Nasmyths self-acting hammer Date: 1843

Wilsons patent no 11, 767 steam hammer
Wilsons patent (no 11, 767 steam hammer improvements) front and side elevations Date: 1847

Steam hercules, plan and side elevation Date: 1846

Steam hercules, rough pencil sketch Date: 1846

Steam hercules, side elevation Date: 1846

Design for a steam hammer forge for wrought iron ordnance of the largest description, side elevation

Stamp hammer for Mr Walton, front and side elevations and details

Foundation for 30 cwt steam hammer, plan, front elevation and details Date: 1856

Cherubs on Penrhyn tomb, Llandegai Church, North Wales
A detail of cherubs splitting slate on the bas relief of the Penrhyn tomb in Llandegai (or Llandygai) Church, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), 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

Statue below the Juche Tower, Pyongyang, North Korea
A statue depicting three members of the proletariat, one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush (an idealised worker, a peasant and a " working intellectual" )

Man demolishing top of police public call box
A man demolishing the top of a police public call box, possibly after war damage during World War Two

Indian Goldsmiths at work

Metal worker at Matiari, West Bengal, India
A metal worker makes a brass pot by traditional methods at Matiari, a village in West Bengal, India. Date: 2007

The Motorists companion / W H Robinson
The Motorists companion: a Swiss army knife of usefulness, including small hammer for tapping a bent crankshaft into shape, and a cigarette holder

Richardsons Original Musical Stones - on display in Keswick Museum and Art Gallery in Cumbria. Joseph Richardson (b. 1790), a stonemason and gifted amateur musician from Keswick

Chatham Prison Riots - The Convicts at Labour
Convicts at labour breaking rocks at St Marys Convict Prison, Chatham. A serious riot broke out here amongst the inmates in early March 1861, which had to be forcibly put down by the military

A Turkish Tinker
A metal utensil manufacturer in Constantinople in his workshop. A Turkish Tinker, a mender of metal objects

Carpenters saw a large log
A team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

M. Leon Coutier finishing a hand-axe of Acheulean type
How stone-age tools were made: a modern recontruction of prehistoric skill. Coutier seen striking light blows along the roughed-out edge with a boxwood hammer

Building the roof of a liquid methane tank
Two welders work on the domed aluminium roof of a large liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Turkish Gypsies - Metalworking
Turkish Gypsies at home. A girl operates a large set of hand bellows, whilst her father works metal on a small anvil next to their tent

Lear / Nonsense / Buda
There was an Old Person of Buda, whose conduct grew ruder and ruder; Till at last, with a hammer, they silenced his clamour, by smashing that Person of Buda

Kenilworth - Wayland
Wayland, touch him not, or you will come by the worse! So thou hast betrayed me, Flibbertigibbet? A boy comes between the smith Wayland and Tressilian

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

Chinese Ferryman
A Chinese ferryman aboard his vessel, with a large mounted gong and hammer to alert passengers to his imminent departure or perhaps to other boats to warn of his passage

An Elizabethan Hall
Grand ladies and gentlemen converse inside an Elizabethan hall with a magnificent hammer-beam roof

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

Rigbys Needle Gun

Dougalls Pat. Lockfast
Dougalls Patent Lockfast rifle

Group of Workmen C1910
A group of workmen in their Sunday best, but with their workday tools -- possibly on a works outing

C17 Stoneworker
A stoneworker working with hammer and chisel

Happy Families / Mrs Chip
" Happy Families" was devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Happy Families / Miss Chip
Miss Chip the Carpenters Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

A Farrier at work, Worcestershire
A Farrier at work, fitting a shoe to a large working horse, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Caxton - Second Pawn
THE SECOND PAWN which stands before the Knight represents a smith who provides the knight with bridles, saddles etc

Transport / By Horse / Stage
Coaches were generally made of tough ash wood, with mahogany panels and leather upper parts; the finest made coaches commanded the best wages

Nasmyths Steam Hammer
Interior of factory showing Nasmyths steam hammer in action

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