The men who make it are craftsmen: the millwright, the watchmaker, the canal builder, the blacksmith.What makes the Industrial Revolution so peculiarly English is that it is rooted in the countryside.
A blacksmith once said to me, when…asked why he was not both blacksmith and whitesmith, "The smith that will meddle with all things may go shoe the gosling."
A blacksmith once said to me, when…asked why her was not both blacksmith and whitesmith, "The smith that will meddle with all things may go shoe the gosling."