Orrell Blacksmith, 75 year old Sam Cadman
Year: 1954 Item #: 1611 Views: 11,073 Comments: 1
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The last of the Orrell Blackmiths is seventy-five-year-old Sam Cadman, who is gamely carrying on the home industry in a small smithy behind his cottage in Church Street.
Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, Spring 1954
Comments by Chris Birchall on 11th January 2014 
Sam is related to my husbands maternal side of the family. Doris Cadman being his mother.
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