Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Caldbeck: Strong and Sons


	Caldbeck: Strong and Sons
	Joe Strong and Sons clogmakers
site name:-	Midtown Barn
locality:-	Caldbeck
civil parish:-	Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	clogmaker's
locality type:-	workplace
coordinates:-	NY32353972
1Km square:-	NY3239
10Km square:-	NY33

	BOT37.jpg (taken 1.3.2008) BOT38.jpg A pair of clogs for a shop sign. (taken 1.3.2008)

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Blanket Mill
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "J STRONG AND SON CLOG MARKERS (BLANKET MILL) / / / CALDBECK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72363 / NY3235539713"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Watermill built as a threshing mill and later used as a woollen blanket mill. Early C19. Coursed limestone rubble with raised red sandstone quoins. Graduated grey slate roof. 3 storeys in T-shape. Projecting portion to left has large segmental cart entrance in alternate-block surround. 2 steel casements above in red sandstone surrounds. Right portion has ground floor plank door in alternate-block surround with similar doorway above reached by external stone steps. First and second floor steel casements in red sandstone surrounds. Similar windows to rear. Ground floor interior has wheel pit complete with cast iron wheel and most of the machinery, also at first floor level, now used on that floor only as a clog makers' workshop. Marked on 1900 OS map as Woollen Mill."

	BQI13.jpg Busy workbench. (taken 27.3.2009) BQI14.jpg Working stool, and tools. (taken 27.3.2009) BQI15.jpg Bought in clogs and shoes. (taken 27.3.2009) BQI16.jpg Mr Strongs own clogs and shoes. (taken 27.3.2009) BQI17.jpg J Strong. clogmaker. (taken 27.3.2009) BQI18.jpg Working on a clog. (taken 27.3.2009) BQI19.jpg Mr Strong in his work apron, leather, patched - it's saved many a gash on a leg from a knife. (taken 27.3.2009)

person:-	clogmaker; cobbler : Strong, Joe and Sons
date:-	2008
item:-	clogs

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