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A blacksmith demonstrating his craft at Vandalia's Eighth Annual Underground Rail Road Days.
Vandalia, Cass County, Michigan
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Jeffrey and I spent the day at Old World Wisconsin Saturday. The weather was perfect.
We spent quite a while watching the blacksmith work.
Blacksmith shop at Historic Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia. My great-great grandfather, Joseph Green Smith (1848-1882), was born a slave in Montgomery County, Virginia. As a young man he worked as a blacksmith near Blacksburg. His last slave owner is unknown at this time, but available records point to either Daniel Howe Hoge (1811-1867), or his brother James Fulton Hoge (1818-1873) of Blacksburg, VA. As a free man at the end of the Civil War in 1865, Joseph Green Smith went to work for a Samuel Dulaney (1810-1875) in adjacent Floyd County, Virginia. Remarkable for that time, Green Smith was a former slave who could both read and write English.
Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA
A blacksmith in Warwick Castle as part of the Kingmaker tour. It looks like the smith would have been right at home in Skyrim (an Elder Scrolls game).
Blacksmith at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri, 1979. He swung this big hammer for several hours a day so you wouldn't want to arm wrestle him to see who bought lunch.
I rarely paint in acrylics, but I've posted a few just for the record. This 16" x 20" was sold several years ago to a young woman whose grandfather had been a blacksmith.
Blacksmith at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri, 1979. If you don't think of ironwork as art, you haven't seen this man work.
Accession Number: R-313
Creator: Robbins, Lewis L
Summary: Famous whaling blacksmith skilled in straightening harpoons bent during the chase.
Object Name: Photograph, silver gelatin
People: Larsen
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Colin Bradman, the blacksmith. Along with his team's members he's giving wonderful presentations of his craftsman to the Calgary Stampede visitors.
I asked him what's his take on the TV show 'Forged In Fire'.. He said it's quite authentic, and -- he's submitted his name to a pull of prospective participants. Good for him! Hopefully, we'll see him doing cool (i.e., 'hot') stuff for much bigger audience.
Blacksmith vane on the old Broken Cross Smithy at Brokencross, just off the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rudheath.
The old blacksmith shop in Galena, some 100+years old. It is now run by volunteers, they give excellent guides to the blacksmithing skill. They survive on donations and through selling the labours of their time. This chap is retired and 'smiths for fun - seemed to know his stuff to me! And my son (11montsh old) was fascinated by the hammering (from behind a perspex screen). Worth a visit if you're in the area.
Cambria Iron Works Complex, the Blacksmith Shop is the most historically significant of the structures. Originally owned by the Cambria Iron Company, the Blacksmith Shop produced a wide range of metal products throughout the 19 th and 20 the centuries. With the decline of the steel industry and the closing of Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1992, the Blacksmith Shop has since been vacant.
The Blacksmith Shop is a large brick structure that was constructed in at least five stages. The original building is octagonal shaped with an octagonal cupola, containing heavy timbered roof trusses with iron tension rods, common-bond red brick walls and pilasters. In the 1870s, a rectangular wing was added to the west elevation and in 1885 another wing was added on the east elevation. It retains a full complement of original turn-of-the-century forging and smiting tools and a variety of steam-powered hammers, including a ten-ton steam hammer owned by the Smithsonian Institute and leased to the Redevelopment Authority .
To the Avalonia guild on EB
Weyland the smith owns this blacksmith that is in the great capital of Avalonia, Albion. His skills is not into making swords, Weyland is Avalonia best man to shoe the horses and to repair all kind of carts. His cousin Quinlan also works in the blacksmith. Today he is shoing a horse while Weyland fixes a carts wheel.
Young blacksmith using an old British Alcosa F39 wind-up fan to blow air onto the coals in his outdoor demonstration at the Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre in Turvey.
This is another one from our weekend away in Westbury-On-Severn. He was making a blade for a knife and it was brilliant to watch.
Blacksmith Shop at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site outside of La Junta, Colorado. The activities in this room included constructing wagon parts, the manufacturing and repair of tools, livestock shoeing, and wheel repairs. According to visitors, most of the fort's mechanics were Americans with a few Frenchmen. Their worksiops were typically cluttered places. Prevailing smells included coal smoke and hot-shod hooves which smelled like burning hair. Tools included hammers, tongs, anvils, and a vice. Bent & St. Vrain ordered a 123 pound iron anvil in 1840 and they purchased a cowhide bellows for $20.00. Wagons were repaired and animals shod in the alley behind the shop. Beyond that is the wagon shed where freight wagons were stored in winter.
Originally built in 1833 by Charles and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain. It became one of the significant centers of fur trade on the Santa Fe Trail. Due to its location on an established road, the fort paved the way for the occupation of the west by the U.S. Army and was an instrument of Manifest Destiny and the invasion of Mexico in 1846. By 1849 the trade that made the fort prosper was deteriorating. Due to cholera William Bent supposedly tried to burn down the fort in 1849. In the early 1850s Bent constructed Bent's New Fort 40 miles downriver at Big Timbers, near present day Lamar, Colorado. The present fort was reconstructed in 1976 using archeological excavations and original sketches, paintings and diaries. It is on both the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmark Lists.
NRIS #66000254. Added in 1966.
NHLS #66000254. Added in 1966.
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The forge in the Blacksmiths Shop at The Plains Railway & Historical Museums Cottage.
The Plains Railway
HDR, 10/04/2016
We went to Harrogate showground today to the Countryside Live show. A little bit like the Yorkshire show, with all the animals, plants, and events happening, just a smaller, autumnal event. The rain held off, albeit it was a little cool.
Blacksmiths propane forge. Easily reaches welding heat
Hand forged tools and flux - available online at
front-step-forge.myshopify.com
Or at my shop