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The village blacksmith at Hook, Warsash
 
   
The village blacksmith at Hook, Warsash
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Brief Description: The village blacksmith at Hook, Warsash with cottages and occupants standing outside, looking towards Fleet End Road, about 1905.
Subject Date: About 1905
Creator: Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library;
Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service
Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service
 
Full Description: Two men in working clothes including aprons and man sitting wearing a peaked cap outside the blacksmiths. The blacksmiths forge here was occupied by generations of the Silvester (Sylvester) family from at least 1814 until the death of Arthur Silvester in 1964. Wooden wheels made in the wheelwrights shop would be rolled to the forge to have iron tyres fitted. Family with three women, child and baby outside second cottage. Four men, three of them wearing aprons outside last cottage. Reference: 1. Palmer, Oonagh. 1998. Around Fareham, p. 73. Copy photograph of a photograph.
 
Place: Warsash, Fareham Borough, Hampshire
Subject: building, cottage, street, Fleet End Road, fashion, dress, business, blacksmith, wheelwright
Name Subject: Arthur Silvester, Arthur Sylvester
Content Type: Photograph
Location: Fareham Library
Local Ref: 315/4/2 315/4/2
Unique ID: hs-hl-hs2437-i-00-000.jpg
IPR: Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council
 
 
 

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