Nailmaking, Blacksmiths, Steel, Etc.

Description

This file includes a typed transcript of an interview between Fred Hobbis and E. John Penny on nailmaking in Northfield, Birmingham (June 1963); Evelyn Leonard's article on Tom Merrill and hand-forging steel, extracted from an unidentified issue of 'The Ridings'magazine (Autumn 1964), pp. 16-17; typed notes on blacksmithing from a conversation with D. Wilson, blacksmith at Edzell, Angus (July 1971); J. Wentworth Day's article, 'The Need for a School of Farriery' , extracted from 'Country Life' (20 July 1967), p. 132; and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings on blacksmiths' shoeing-stones, horseshoe doorways, various aspects of blacksmithing, knife-grinders and Lucy Woodall, a female chainmaker.


File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

There are no access restrictions on items in the Folk Life File.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

Photographic images relating to blacksmiths, metalwork and chainmaking are held in the Photo File (LAVC/PHO/P). Blacksmithing and metalwork photographs are held at LAVC/PHO/P0544 -0582. Chainmaking photographs are held at LAVC/PHO/P1394 -1414.



The typed transcript of E. John Penny's interview with Fred Hobbis is copied from Penny's dissertation (Leeds, 1964), 'The Hand-Made Nail Industry of Birmingham and the Midlands', held at LAVC/SRP/2/017. The sound-recording from which this transcript was taken is held at LAVC/SRE/A236r .


Photographs of D. Wilson's blacksmith's shop at Edzell, which accompany the typed notes listed above, are held at LAVC/PHO/P0574 -0580.

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LAVC/PHO/P0574: Anvil in Blacksmith's Shop

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LAVC/PHO/P0576: Blacksmith's Shop: Interior

Archive Item

LAVC/PHO/P0580A: Blacksmith's Shop: Interior

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