2-692-123 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Work in an Iron Foundry and Smithy During The Period of the Middle Ages', c1934. Illlustration showing iron founding and tool-making. The accompanying text explains that the heated and malleable iron was beaten either by hand or by means of a lifting hammer worked by a water-wheel. From The Romance of the Nation, Volume One, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c1934]