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Brass band instrument maker
Blacksmith
Farrier
Silversmith
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Roy Wadman working on the bell of a tuba in the workshop
of RS Kitchen Ltd which was founded in 1875 to repair the instruments
of brass bands in the North of England. In the early Twentieth century
many mills, collieries and factories supported their own brass bands.
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Because he made almost everything needed for the community
for use in the home, on the land or to wage war, the blacksmith was
regarded as the king among craftsmen.
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George Twiddle, a traditional country
Blacksmith at Brigham near Driffield, pictured here standing outside
his smithy, which is reputed to be well over 250 years old, with
one of his farrows. |
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George Twiddle at work on his single ended anvil in
his small crowded smithy. |
Men who specialised in the shoeing of horses were called farriers, derived from the Latin 'faber farrarius' or 'one skilled in iron work. The blacksmith was the worker in iron, smithing or 'smiting' implements and iron work generally, the farrier made the shoes and shod the horses, whether for working on the land or for riding and hunting.
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Phil Dowson, the fourth generation of a Kirkbymoorside
family to work as a farrier in the Rydale forge, here seen nailing
a hind shoe |
Silver production in Sheffield was of the mass produced,
poorly designed, but profitable variety until the end of the 19th century.
Under the influence of a number of Silversmiths trained at the Sheffield
School of art a new, higher standard of work has developed, with the
focus on craftsmanship and inspiration.
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Jack Spencer, a designer silversmith of Ecclesall
Road, Sheffield, uses a double-ended hammer to 'block out' a disc
of sterling silver on a silversmith's leather-covered sandbag as
the first stage in hand-raising a silver goblet. |