{"id":7842,"date":"2014-06-14T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2014-06-14T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T15:09:07","slug":"historic-smithy-to-let","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7842","title":{"rendered":"Historic smithy to let"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Manwan Smith Anvil Trust are advertising a historic smithy to let, and are seeking a suitable blacksmith to take up residency there<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The National Heritage Ironwork Group writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nThe Trustees of the Anvil Trust in Mawnan Smith near Falmouth in Cornwall have recently overseen the restoration of village smithy and are now looking for a suitable blacksmith.<\/p>\n<p>In 1851 there were four working smithies serving nineteen farms in the parish, but fifty years later only one remained. For over a hundred years the smithy, operated by blacksmith Billy James and followed by his son Dryden, was the \u00a0centre of village life until, on Dryden&#8217;s death in 1994, the smithy doors were \u00a0closed and the building and its contents went into hibernation. Then in 2002 the owner of the smithy and the Parish created a project which brought about the restoration of the premises to its former glory and made the anvil ring once more, hence the formation of the Mawnan Anvil Trust<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mawnansmith.org\/page2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manwan Smith Anvil Trust<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nhig.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">National Heritage Ironwork Group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manwan Smith Anvil Trust are advertising a historic smithy to let, and are seeking a suitable blacksmith to take up residency there. The National Heritage Ironwork Group writes: The Trustees of the Anvil Trust in Mawnan Smith near Falmouth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7843,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}