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James Guinee - Blacksmith
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James Guinee bought the business in 1955 from the Ginns family who had been
blacksmiths for several generations, tarding from their premises near The Green.
Jimmy retired in the 1970s and moved to Yelden.
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| Rushden Echo & Argus, 16th November 1951 |
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| “And children coming home from school look in at the open door.” The ponies, their riders, the sturdy blacksmith and the children are all, in fact, outside Rushden’s old smithy in High Street South, but the flaming forge and roaring bellows are not far away, and the scene is richly in keeping with Longfellow’s famous poem. |
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Evening Telegraph 'Nostalgia Special' February 1985
This picture was taken in January 1955.
The blacksmith is Jimmy Guinee who soon afterwards bought the business and in the early seventies moved to Yelden.
By 1955 the use of horses to draw carts was just about coming to an end, according to Mr Guinee, but riding for leisure remianed popular.
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