Stoke Ferry blacksmith’s forge in Lynn News Picture This

Picture This with Lynn Museum from Tuesday, July 4:

Here is a photographic postcard of a group outside ‘The Forge’ in Stoke Ferry about 1930.

Blacksmithing is a multi-disciplinary craft that is based on the traditional core skills of forging, forming, cutting and joining hot metal.

The craft was an essential social support in every village and town. However, the village blacksmith almost disappeared after the World War II with the advent of mechanisation on the land.

Today the modern craft blacksmith is mainly concerned with producing architectural and domestic decorative ironwork and even public art.