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Former smithy, Wylam

The building is currently home to a small business, 'Wylam Tiles & Crafts'. It was in use as a Blacksmith's Shop until the 1930s. Old maps show a building in this location in 1897, but absent earlier, possibly making it unlikely to have been involved in the building of the Wylam Colliery steam locomotives between 1813 and 1815 as has been suggested Link
However, other colliery workshops were in this part of the village, close to the former flour mill. Timothy Hackworth, blacksmith and locomotive engineer, was born in a terraced house nearby, and worked at Christopher Blackett's colliery from 1808.