Mobile Forge

September 1955: In the age of automation, the blacksmith is giving way to the 'agricultural engineer'. The few smiths who have survived have had to make concessions to the modern age, like Bill Groom, from Slough in Berkshire, who takes his smithy, complete with forge, in a motorcycle sidecar to wherever his services are required. (Photo by Peter Purdy/BIPs/Getty Images)
September 1955: In the age of automation, the blacksmith is giving way to the 'agricultural engineer'. The few smiths who have survived have had to make concessions to the modern age, like Bill Groom, from Slough in Berkshire, who takes his smithy, complete with forge, in a motorcycle sidecar to wherever his services are required. (Photo by Peter Purdy/BIPs/Getty Images)
Mobile Forge
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Credit:
Peter Purdy / Stringer
Editorial #:
3363699
Collection:
Hulton Archive
Date created:
01 September, 1955
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Source:
Hulton Archive
Barcode:
HP8960
Object name:
97f/25/huty/7231/68
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3134 x 3056 px (26.53 x 25.87 cm) - 300 dpi - 3 MB