Picture
from Getty Hulton Archive |
My
great-grandfather, Raymond Broughton, was a blacksmith like
his father before him and his older brother, Joshua. John Broughton
- the father of Joshua and Raymond - learnt his trade from his
older brother Robert in the Norfolk village of Edgefield. In
1838 he moved to Spixworth, just north of Norwich, married the
blacksmith's daughter, Mary Catherine Coe, and ran the forge
until the 1860s. Spixworth was a quiet estate owned by the Longe
family, with little in the way of progress made, and this picture
of a country forge in 1857 gives some idea of what life might
have been like. |
