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MAWNAN ANVIL TRUST

Company Registration No. 4505128 Charity Registration No. 1099398

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Restoration
of the
Smithy floor
2010

INTRODUCTION

THE FORGE AS IT STOOD IN SPRING 2006

Mawnan Smith Anvil Trust - the restoration of the village smithy

Introduction:

In 1851 there were four working smithies serving nineteen farms in the parish, but fifty years later only one remained. For over a hundred years the smithy, operated by blacksmith Billy James and followed by his son Dryden, was the centre of village life until, on Dryden's death in 1994, the smithy doors were closed and the building and its contents went into hibernation. This is how it stood in 2006. The owner of the smithy and the Parish created a project which brought about the restoration of the premises to its former glory and made the anvil ring once more, hence the formation of the Mawnan Anvil Trust -

For more information please email:gold_martin@hotmail.co.uk

For information on the village of
Mawnan Smith please visit:
www.mawnansmith.org.uk

The Mawnan Anvil Trust is a Registered Charity 1099398. The target for site acquisition and construction works was £400,000.00. The Trustees continue to explore the opportunities for fund raising. Financial contributions to the project overheads are warmly invited from any personal source or Charitable Organisation. Please email us at gold_martin@hotmail.com with any useful information on the history that you might have, enquiry on the project, or perhaps with an offer of a donation!

The Trustees of the Mawnan Anvil Trust
Mawnan Smith
Falmouth
Cornwall UK