Roadside Repairs

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 consessions 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. He even finds an occasional job in town, here he is sharpening picks which are being used for road repair work. (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 consessions 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. He even finds an occasional job in town, here he is sharpening picks which are being used for road repair work. (Photo by Peter Purdy/BIPs/Getty Images)
Roadside Repairs
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Credit:
Peter Purdy / Stringer
Editorial #:
3363730
Collection:
Hulton Archive
Date created:
01 September, 1955
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Source:
Hulton Archive
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HP8992
Object name:
97f/25/huty/7231/70
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