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.
Metadata
| Identifier | qbj94ltw |
| IRN | 410620 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/3/7/17 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qbj94ltw |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Crafts, Trades and Industries |
| Date | 1963-1974 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of typed papers, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |