The Blacksmith Is Disappearing
The blacksmith is gradually disappearing from English villages, but at a technical college at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, fifteen apprentices between sixteen and twenty years old are attending a course that will enable them to help to fill the thinning ranks. One night a week these young men study the theory of their craft, as well as mathematics, costing, and draughtmanship subjects which the majority of old backsmiths would look upon with amazement. Of the apprentices, some of whom travel up to 25 miles to attend the lectures, only two are already following in their father’s footsteps. At the end of their course they will sit for an examination which if they pass, will qualify them as craftsmen and entitle them to set up their own smithies.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 71, 30 March 1949, Page 6
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130The Blacksmith Is Disappearing Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 71, 30 March 1949, Page 6
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