Smithy Collection

Gretna Green Building
The famous Old Smithy and Marriage Room at Gretna Green, Dumfries, Scotland - the haven for runaway couples from England

Blacksmiths outside their forge
A superb photograph of six Blacksmiths and coachbuilders posing for a photograph outside their forge/workshop, each holding the tools of their trade

Herm, Channel Islands, Blacksmiths Cottage, La Rosiere Steps
Blacksmiths Cottage and La Rosiere Steps at Herm (Haerme) - one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Date: circa 1930s

Horseshoer. Coloured engraving (19th c. )
Horseshoer. Coloured engraving (19th c.)

Blacksmith shoeing a Metropolitan Police horse
A blacksmith shoeing a Metropolitan Police horse. There are discarded horseshoes on the floor, and more hanging from a rack on the wall. Date: circa 1960s

Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith 1897-1935
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, 1897-1935. This photo is regarded by his family as the best and most typical ever taken of Smithy. Date: 1935

Cockney Blacksmith / 1932
Mr Charles Mitchell, the village smithy of Pyecombe, Sussex, claims to be a real cockney. Pyecombe forge have been making their famous crooks for centuries

Old Smithy at Branscombe, near Sidmouth, Devon, with a horse having a hoof inspected. Date: circa 1910s

Northop Smithy
A picturesque old smithy (blacksmiths shop) at Northop, Flintshire, Wales. Date: 1930s

Five views at Ulrome, near Driffield, East Yorkshire
Five views of the village and sands of Ulrome, near Driffield, East Yorkshire. Date: 1950s

The Old Smithy, Gretna Green, Scotland

Farrier at his Forge
A farrier and his boy apprentice in a forge in Reading, Berkshire, England

Yorkshire Blacksmith
The Smithy (blacksmith) at work at his anvil in Dent, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Wayland Smiths Cave, Berkshire, England. Formerly an underground chamber of some prehistoric king or priest. Wayland was a mythical smithy who made invincible swords. Date: BC

South Kirkby Smithy early 1900s

Alderley Old Smithy Victorian period

Old Smithy, Alderley

Smithy near Ashburton Victorian period

Smithy near Ashburton devon

Smithy, Paxton near Berwick on Tweed

The Smithy at Paxton near Berwick on Tweed Victorian period

The Old Smithy, Gretna Green, early 1900s

Gretna Green Blacksmiths

Gretna Green in the 1920s

Kimberworth Old Smithy early 1900s

Embleton Blacksmith early 1900s

Penshurst Blacksmith early 1900s

Bempton Blacksmith early 1900s

Beckenham Blacksmith early 1900s

Cottages and Church, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Smithy Cottages and Church, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Bee-Alley Gardens, Dunfermline, Proposals
The top image shows the large palace at Bee-Alley Gardens in Dunfermline, Scotland, with a crude white smithy building in the foreground, the bottom picture shows the same view

Bee-Alley Gardens Smithy House
This photograph shows the large palace at Bee-Alley Gardens in Dunfermline, Scotland, with a crude white smithy building in the foreground. Date: circa 1904

Blacksmith / farriers smithy Kinlochchewe Ross-shire Scotland
Vintage 19th century photograph: The blacksmith or farriers smithy at Kinlochchewe Ross-shire Scotland thatched roof

Village blacksmith 1870
Village smithy stands in front of the open forge. Date: 1870

Siberian Blacksmith
A Siberian Blacksmith at work. Date: circa 1890s

Blacksmith hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammer
Blacksmith in his forge hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammer. Date: 1887

A curious old blacksmiths shop and cottage, decorated with dozens of deers antlers, Berriedale, Caithness, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield 1871
Various scene inside the government-owned rifle factory, Royal Small-Arms Factory, Enfield. Date: 1871

VILLAGE SMITHY
The fine old smithy (blacksmiths shop) in the pretty village of Penshurst, Kent, England. Date: 1950s

COCKNEY BLACKSMITH / 1932
Mr Charles Mitchell, the village smithy of Pyecombe, Sussex, claims to be a real cockney. Pyecombe forge have been making their famous crooks for centuries. Date: 29 September 1932

Nontron, Dordogne - Blacksmith High School. Date: 1906

MET DE BLES, Henri. Copper mines
MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

The Smithy, Penshurst, Kent. circa 1920s

MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

Thornton Hough Smithy
The Village Smithy (blacksmith), with its spreading old chestnut tree, at Thornton Hough, Wirral, England. Date: 1930s

Signs and Symbols on Native Indian Handicrafts
The Signs and Symbols used on indigenous native American handicrafts and jewelery. The Date: circa late 1930s

Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire - The Village Forge. Date: circa 1905

Doorway of Smithy - Coloured Slide - Thatched building, men working inside, Children watching. Date: circa 1880s

Exterior of the village smithy - Coloured slide thatched building horses and people outside, Chickens in foreground. Date: circa 1880s

Netherton Reformatory - Smithy
The smithy at the Netherton Reformatory for Boys, Northumberland. Boys work at various tasks, one constructing a plough. Date: circa 1910

Blacksmiths outside their foundry or forge, USA
Three blacksmiths and two other men outside a foundry or forge, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Foundry Blacksmithing Machine Shop, North Dakota, USA
Foundry Blacksmithing Machine Shop, probably in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, with three children posing on the right. Date: circa 1910s

Two men and a horse in a blacksmiths forge. 19th century

Kokand, Uzbekistan - Shoeing a horse at the local forge. Date: circa 1908

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Blacksmiths Forge. Date: 1907

Chinese Soldiers in Barracks - servicing their equipment Date: circa 1908

Interior of the forge. Engraving. 19th century

The Smithy at Enfield Rifle Factory. 1861

The Sledgehammer adapted by Wilson Barrett
Promotional postcard for The Sledgehammer adapted from the Flemish of Neston Le Thiers by Wilson Barrett. First produced Theatre Royal, Kilburn, 22nd February 1897. For Alfred Northway and H. V

The Village, Alderley, Gloucestershire
The Village, Alderley, Wotton-under-Edge, near Kingswood, Gloucestershire, England. Showing the Smithy Date: 1907

British troops shoeing horses at village near the front, WW1
British soldiers shoeing horses at a village near the Front in 1915. Date: 1915

This Weeks Fragment by Bruce Bairnsfather
This Weeks Fragment " Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" In a rather sombre Bruce Bairnsfather illustration, a bombed out smithy is stood, crumbling

Old Smithy Interior
The interior of an old smithy (blacksmiths shop) at Colne Engaine, Essex, England. Date: 1950s

Turkish Blacksmith at Veles, Macedonia Date: circa 1920s

Australia - Victoria - Bush Blacksmith (Gippsland Region) Date: circa 1905

Farrier - Blacksmith preparing horseshoes Date: circa 1910s

Metropolitan Police blacksmith with WPC and horses
A blacksmith shaping a horseshoe on his anvil, while a Metropolitan Police WPC watches. Two horses stand waiting in the background. Date: circa 1980s

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

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

The Great Eastern scrapped: the auction, 1888
The Great Eastern under the hammer. After a thirty year career, the great steamship was scrapped, with her hull and fittings being sold at auction at New Ferry, Liverpool. 1

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

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

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

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

Breton Smithy / 19147
Outside the smithy at Pont- Aven Date: 1914

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