Sam Thompson Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 There's nothing like keeping the place tidy! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Village-blacksmith-Lacock-Wiltshire-1948-photo-view-/280558058847?pt=UK_art_prints_GL&hash=item4152903d5f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Thats clean compaired to my smithy at times....but at least I know where every tool is when I need it ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortdog Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 I'd be scared of faling down in that shop. You'd get up full of holes! Cool old picture. Thanks for posting the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Creek Blacksmith Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Bet he knows where every thing is at!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 I have been in worse, the real problem he has is all that scale makes him bend over so far to reach the anvil. Don't he know that's bad for his back? OUCH! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 All this guy needed was some aluminium powder(read a pile) and a kids sparkler and the thermite would have provided a castiron floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick C Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 The missus says it looks like I worked there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 I generally associate pictures like that with the die off of the craft---no apprentices to clean the shop every day and having to put in a hard day's work to make a living, no time/energy to clean up the place. And it happens so slowly you don't notice it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Thompson Posted September 7, 2010 Author Share Posted September 7, 2010 Good point, Thomas. I wonder how many years it takes to collect that many heading bolsters. I notice that there are number of hand tools awaiting attention, a Saturday morning's beer money job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 What Bad Creek said, I'll bet he knows exactly where everything is! That pile of smithereens he is standing on must be two feet deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 great photo sam - i agree with thomas - it shouts of hard hard graft and not enough daylight hours. respect to those guys i reckon. i love the old photos cheers for posting :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyGeorge Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Had to show that one to my wife. She thought that I was the only one that couldn't find my floor!! LOL :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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