East Rainton, smithy

HER Number:
15714

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, smithy

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Metal Workers Workshop

Site Type: Specific:
Blacksmiths Workshop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1824 William Coulson was blacksmith in East Rainton. Smithy shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map. By the 1920s this was Bailey's ladder makers and sign writers.

Easting:
3359

Northing:
4813

Grid Reference:
NZ33594813

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map 1890; East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Robert Hope, no date, Recollections of Life in the Village of East Rainton in the 1920s