The Blue Ridge Experience - Mabry Mill
I was delighted to see this blacksmith demonstrating on our second (return journey) to Mabry. As a teenager I was taught blacksmithing and alot of other traditional crafts at school = one of the few advantages of going to Secondary Modern (technical high school) as well as a Grammar School (academic school) Alas - these skills are no longer taught in this way - with good reason - but even so a sad loss of skill and understanding of materials