In times gone by, the way to learn a craft and earn a living was to be apprenticed to a master. You would be legally bound to the master for ...
1 Site of smithy marked on OS map of 1901.
The site of a blacksmiths workshop where metal would have been worked. It dated to the Imperial period and was situated immediately northeast of Bulls Head Bridge, Polesworth. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1901.
1 Site of smithy marked on OS map of 1885.
The site of a blacksmiths workshop where metal would have been worked. It dated to the Imperial period and was situated 300m north of Grendon Fields Farm. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885.
I was born February 25th 1937 at 2, The Common, Polesworth, which was also the birthplace of my dad Ernie. The house is still there, over the road from the ...