"House, shoeing bay and forge in the Gothick taste. Early C19, altered C20"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168331 

An entry in Kelly's Directory 1905 reads "Hart Walter, blacksmith"

DB 2020

Two slated conical-roofed Gothic buildings have a rectangular link.

One end houses the village smithy, the other living accommodation.

The building dates around 1800 with later alterations and was refurbished in 2003.

It now produces decorative iron work and has an on-site gallery.

Stewart Squires, 2004

This unusual composite building dates from c.1800 with later alterations.

Two slate roofed conical "pavilions" are linked by a rectangular block. The smithy was at one end.

June 2013

Jean Howard, 2 May 2021

Development site opposite the Blue Bell

Remains of former smithy.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 and also the 1919 edition lists George Howard as the village blacksmith.

DB 3 September 2018

"Estate cottage, now a house, post office and smithy. Cottage C17, remodelled 1838; smithy 1838. Both by Anthony Salvin"

"One of several estate buildings by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, of Belton House"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1298453 

Georgian "GR" post box still in use.

DB 25 April 2018 

Former forge now the village shop. 

Shop website has a sepia photograph of the forge taken in 1906 :-

http://www.theoldforgevillageshop.co.uk/ 

Shown as a smithy on 25 inch Ordnance Survey map published 1887.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061896 

DB 2 July 2018

A smithy shown here on the OS 25 inch map surveyed 1888. Located between the Packet Inn and Dogdyke Corn Mills at National Grid Reference TF 2096 5547.

DB 17 January 2022 

Easton Walled Gardens are particularly well known for the winter snowdrops.

The building in the background marked as a Smithy on OS 25 inch map published 1904 - next to it there was a gasometer.

DB 20 February 2010

Former smithy now a private house.

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "Claydon John William, blacksmith"

DB 26 April 2021

Jean Howard, 9 May 2021

Messrs Harrison & Sons (1710-1965) made basketware, fine cane furniture, bath chairs and baby carriages.

Their business was on the west side of Watergate and they had osier beds, shown here, at Dysart Road and other locations on the south-west of the town. 

Former smithy.

Blacksmith listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "Jackson Ellen (Mrs.), blacksmith" and in White's Directory 1856 "Cook Thomas, blacksmith"

DB 1 June 2019

This small building stands alongside the green lane to the church and was the village blacksmith's premises for many years.

It is hoped to renovate the building and convert it into a dwelling.

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

"village blacksmith, known as Cook's Corner after the family that ran the business for many years in the late 19th and early 20th Century.

Famous for once making a boot out of a leather blacksmith's apron for a lame elephant belonging to a travelling circus, which was passing through"

http://www.heckingtonvillagetrust.org.uk/a-walk-around-heckington.html 

Signboard states

"NICHOLAS MARSHALL / BLACKSMITH / EST 1980"

DB 14 July 2018

The wheelwright's furnace or oven at 45 Foundry Street is a rare survival.

Metal tyres, standing vertically, were heated on the hearth of the oven before fitting over cart or wagon wheels in the wheelwright's yard alongside.

Matthew Scaman (father and then son) were the first wheelwrights here; Charles Twell followed in the 1920s.

Chris Lester, 2010

"Smithy and engineering shop. 1859 for George Laming; bay to right raised to 2 storeys in later C19 - early C20"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083224 

Now the Owston Ferry Museum & Heritage Centre.

DB 21 August 2018

Smithy in action during a museum open day.

"The business was owned by the Laming family, and when the last member, George Laming, died in 1988 the whole complex was put up for sale ... The whole complex was bought by Mr Arthur Mills, who donated the Smithy to the Owston Ferry History Society"

DB 2 September 2018

The most attractive wrought iron sign for Ranby Grange is supported on a tall oak post with chamfered corners and an acorn finial.

Jean Howard, 2 January 2022

Many villages had simple workshops like this for a blacksmith or wheelwright. Good light and wide doors were essential features.

This workshop is close to the former railway station (TF 073 805).

The last blacksmith here was William Thompson.

2008

It was converted into a dwelling 2016-17

The brick and pantiled forge on High Street near the former Chain Bridge over the Welland dates from about 1800.

Throughout the 19th century much of the work of the smithy was concerned with boats and river traffic.

The business was in the hands of the Dodd family from 1899 till the 1980s when the business faced closure.

"The former blacksmith's forge and farrier's workshop (Grade 2 listed) of 1864 (still in use) is a reminder of both our agricultural heritage and the commitment to rural improvements in Victorian England by the Marquis of Ripon, the then owner of the Welbourn estate. 

https://www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/_resources/assets/attachment/full/0/11983.pdf 

Marked as a smithy on the OS 25 inch map published 1905. 

DB 24 June 2018

"In 1987, North Kesteven District Council purchased the workshop and, in collaboration with Welbourn Parish Council and a group of local volunteers, the building has been repaired and rewired.

In 2000 the forge fires were lit for the first time in over 30 years and the volunteer group organised the first Open Day.

Members of the Volunteer Group continue to meet on the first Saturday of each month, when the forge is open to visitors"

http://www.ridgesandfurrowstrail.org/welbourn-forge/ 

DB 24 June 2018

Horseshoe symbol at side of building beneath chimney.

Date reading as 1864? 

DB 2020

The buildings which formed the blacksmith's shop remain but are no longer a forge. The white building beyond is the Willoughby Arms, still open as a Bateman's house (as at November 2023). The village shop (rear right) is now residential. The telephone box has gone.

Undated postcard by F. Frith & Co., Ltd.