Date:2004
Description:Charles Woodward's smithy from Mayfield as reconstructed at Shugborough Park Farm. The forge is to the right of the photograph, and a hand powered belt-driven drill can be seen to the left. The smithy belonged to the Woodward family from 1805 and worked until Charles Woodward retired in 1965. Many of these tools were made by Mr Woodward and his father. Charles Woodward was born in 1889 and lived all his life next to the smithy at 22 Wallash in Mayfield. When he died in 1974 the smithy and his living room were collected by the Staffordshire County Museum and moved to Shugborough. He was a bachelor and a deeply religious man - he never worked on Sunday. His working day began at 6 in the morning and finished at 5.30 in the afternoon. In his spare time he read his Bible, bred pigeons and tended his garden. Mr Woodward was one of the few blacksmiths to keep working after the 1940s, when tractors and factory made tools and machines made the blacksmith's skills obsolete. He kept working by doing general ironwork in the village; making tools, kitchen equipment, hinges and so on. He made most of the ironwork for the local sewage works and regularly repaired looms at Bond's textile mills in Alrewas.
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Charles Woodward's smithy from Mayfield as reconstructed at Shugborough Park Farm. The forge is to ...
Blacksmith's anvil from the Mayfield smithy. Charles Woodward's smithy from Mayfield was reconstructed ...
Blacksmith's bolt shapers from the Mayfield smithy. Charles Woodward's smithy from Mayfield has been ...
Blacksmith's hand turned belt-driven drill from the Mayfield smithy. Charles Woodward's smithy from ...
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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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