Typical Rural Blacksmiths Work

Typical Rural Blacksmiths Work

Darren Ainsworth • May 7, 2017 Years ago when the blacksmiths forge was the hub of the community a huge variety of work would have been brought to the door, there was horses to shoe, farm equipment to make and mend, tools to sharpen and replace for local craftsmen,...
Blacksmith Made Casement Windows

Blacksmith Made Casement Windows

Darren Ainsworth • September 26, 2016 Blacksmith made casement windows can be found on tudor to mid Victoria buidings and where made of wrought iron, the windows where either a fixed casement, which consisted of an iron surround with the leaded glass tinned to the...
Wordsmith Meets Blacksmith

Wordsmith Meets Blacksmith

Darren Ainsworth • March 24, 2016 On the bitterly cold morning of february 16th journalist penelope baddeley came to the georgian forge to interview me For a feature in the derbyshire life magazine. We talked for a couple of hours about all aspects of the craft of...
Blacksmith Made Standard Lamp

Blacksmith Made Standard Lamp

Darren Ainsworth • June 16, 2015 It is important when designing a standard lamp to take into consideration of how to conceal the wiring, nothing looks more awkward than a nicely handforged lamp , light or chandelier to then have electric cable visible on the job , its...
Hoard Of Celtic Horseshoes

Hoard Of Celtic Horseshoes

April 29, 2014 Recently ive found an interesting array of horseshoes dating from celtic through to saxon times , known as the wavy-rim shoe, due to the nail stamp bulging the outside border of the shoe during the making. The top left shoe in the photo is the oldest,...