WHO remembers these traditional Yorkshire trades?
Today's selection of pictures from yesteryear show craftsmen displaying skills which have all but died out in the modern world.
Smiling blacksmith Peter Bradshaw can be seen here hard at work in his shop at Upper Poppleton, York, in 1970.
The workshop had to be demolished to make way for a health clinic.
H E Dobson, Askham Bryan's village "smithy" from 1958, is shown sharing a joke with young admirer, Jack Houseman.
Meanwhile, thatcher Seth Eccles, of Helmsley, is pictured combing down the straw to the eaves of Pockley Post Office.
Surely not the best trade to be smoking on the job!
Shoeing smith Taffy Demery is pictured at the Malton racing stables of Pat Rohan viewing a red-hot racing shoe with an expert eye.
Updated: 12:11 Friday, January 31, 2003
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