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 Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Blacksmiths Workshop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

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

433590

Northing

548130

Grid Reference

NZ433590548130

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