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   In message , Tickettyboo   
    writes:   
   >On 2018-04-24 18:19:17 +0000, BobC said:   
   []   
   >>  They all seem to work either at a Shipyard or at a Railway Works, so   
   >> definitely heavy engineeering rather than what we usually think of as   
   >> the traditional blacksmith shoeing horses.   
   >   
   >The popular scenario of the village blacksmith, though valid, is only a   
   >tiny part of what happened in the industrialised areas.   
   []   
   I have never seen the village blacksmith as only or even mainly doing   
   horse shoeing; even before industrialisation, there would have been   
   ironwork to maintain and manufacture: parts of carts, fences, buildings,   
   cattle equipment, ...   
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