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East Linton has a large agricultural hinterland and these tools belonged to a smith who worked there. Until well into the 20th century local farriers and blacksmiths were employed servicing farms' establishments of horse power and to repair basic farm technology and equipment (much of which had also been manufactured locally).
Much of an experienced smith's work was done by eye, with a few simple tools to help him translate dimensions from a template to a piece being fabricated. These robust dividers were used where an exact dimension was essential; the legs of each can be fixed in place so the space measured can be tested against the piece being worked.
The smith was once a key figure in every one of East Lothian's towns and villages and several were still working at the end of the 20th century. Many undertook light engineering work in addition to ordinary smithcraft, but there were still sufficient horses in the rural areas for traditional farrier's skills to be in demand.
Accession number - 2001.316.12/13
Bontkiewiet
(Vanellus armatus)
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Bontkiewiet
(Vanellus armatus)
The blacksmith lapwing or blacksmith plover (Vanellus armatus) occurs commonly from Kenya through central Tanzania to southern and southwestern Africa. The vernacular name derives from the repeated metallic 'tink, tink, tink' alarm call, which suggests a blacksmith's hammer striking an anvil.
Blacksmith lapwings are very boldly patterned in black, grey and white, possibly warning colours to predators. It is one of five lapwing species (two African, one Asian and two Neotropical) that share the characteristics of a carpal (wing) spur, red eye and a bold pied plumage. The bare parts are black. Females average larger and heavier but the sexes are generally alike.
The blacksmith lapwing occurs in association with wetlands of all sizes. Even very small damp areas caused by a spilling water trough can attract them. In South Africa they are most numerous in the mesic grassland region, less so in higher-rainfall grasslands. Like the crowned lapwing, this species may leave Zambia and Zimbabwe in years of high rainfall and return in dry years. It avoids mountains of any type.
Blacksmith lapwings expanded their range in the 20th century into areas where dams were built and where intensive farming was practiced. Consequently, they are now numerous and established in the western Cape region of South Africa, where they were absent until the 1930s. In this region they have also entered estuarine mud flats in winter where they aggressively displace other waders. Although they are partially migratory, they do not seem to engage in large-scale, regular migrations.
During the breeding season, the species often reacts aggressively to other lapwings or African jacanas that may enter its wetland habitat. Nests are shallow depressions on bare ground or short grass, close to water, and tend to be spaced at least 400 m apart. The blacksmith lapwing breeds in spring, but its choice of nesting site and timing may be opportunistic. The young separate gradually from their parents and do not return to natal areas afterwards. This lapwing feeds on aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates.
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A modest detour on the way to Sebec Lake. Admission is free. Taken in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine.
Blacksmith at work making clothes hooks. Taken in Crawford Bay, British Columbia. The Kootenay Forge Ltd. is open year round and shares a building with glass maker and copper artisans, all of their beautiful stuff is available for sale there. Check 'em out when you drive by, they are literally on the roadside.
As you continue, you’ll pass the Blacksmith Shop. A blacksmith’s skills were vital in frontier areas. He forged tools, hinges, nails, wagon wheels and shoes for horses and made repairs. Here, the smith still uses coal and the legendary tools of the trade: bellows, anvil, vise, hammer and tongs.
Since I decided to make an album for Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts, I'm adding 10 additional images, from my visit on November 23, 2018. Here are two more views from the smithy. Here, the smith is using a bellows to make the fire hotter.
The Blacksmith Thomas Grasby and helper. Thomas Grasby was born in 1785 and died aged 73 in 1858. His forge was at the eastern end of Blacksmith's Row, I believe he can be seen staning in his forge in the photo of Blacksmith's Row.
A Blacksmith's Workshop, photographed in Dec 2007, converted to B&W in Elements 5, a vignette added and then colorized (turned to sepia)
Botswana.
Kasane.
In the garden of our hotel: Toro Safari Lodge.
The Blacksmith Lapwing or Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus armatus) occurs commonly from Kenya through central Tanzania to southern and southwestern Africa. The vernacular name derives from the repeated metallic 'tink, tink, tink' alarm call, which suggests a blacksmith's hammer striking an anvil.
Source: scan of a picture in our image collection.
Image: V1493
Photographer: unknown
Repository: Local History Centre, Gundry Lane, Bridport
Source: scan of a picture in our image collection.
Image: V1458
Photographer: unknown
Site of smithy became Creeds the printers before they moved to Gore Cross
Repository: Local History Centre, Gundry Lane, Bridport
Schmied auf dem Mittelaltermarkt in Braunschweig / Blacksmith on the medieval market in Braunschweig
Taken in the Blacksmiths shed at Snailbeach Lead Mine in Shropshire.
I waited for everyone else to leave the room and then asked the chap for a portrait. I didn't want to ask to go over the chain cordoning off the furnace but it seems that I should have done as another member of the group managed to get over and make their own lead ingots. Lack of a decent background excludes this from possible competition use though I still think it is a nice portrait.
This series of images are from 35mm slides shot back in the 70's with my Nikon Nikkormat film camera. these old slides were reproduced with my Nikon D7000 and a 55mm Micro Nikor lens
Didn't notice the turtle until I got the shot home. It is perhaps, under all that mud, a serrated hinged terrapin, Pelusios sinuatus.
GSM has its own blacksmith setup down by their encampment. On this day, I overheard one of the men saying they were making a spoon and a knife (not a sharp one, just a butter knife type of thing).
Blacksmith demonstration at the annual Apple and Pork festival in Clinton, IL.
Taken with Polaroid w/ Fuji 100B film