Saxham Street - 'smiths, wheelwrights and coopers
For other ‘smiths etc around Stowupland see ‘smiths, ‘wrights, carpenters etc.
Blacksmiths listed in Saxham Street
‘Smithy – opposite the Drift Way.
Home and ‘smithy for Samuel Smith at the turn of the 19th/20th century.
1964 Joseph Denny – blacksmith. Despite change pf ownership many local people still call it ;Dennys’.
Blacksmiths Cottage – opposite Oak Tree Farm.
Several members of the Hart family were Blacksmiths. In 1826 there was a big fire reported, this may have been the smithy opposite Oak Tree Farm or on The Green
‘ about 10 o’clock on Wed night, a fire broke out in the wheelwrights shop of Mr Hart of Stowupland which with its contents to a considerable amount were entirely destroyed’
1891-2 Horace and James Hart
1885 Issac and James Hart
1874 Elijah and James Hart wheelwrights, coopers and builders
1855 William Hart – wheelwright
Elizabeth Hart – blacksmith
1844 – John Hart blacksmith
Carpenters and Builders
In 1840 John Quinton was living in Saxham Cottage (though we don’t know if it was called that then). He was a carpenter and owned land across the road and next door. He did some work for the Freeman family at Stowupland Hall. But by the next census of 1851 he is not named.
His carpentry business seems to have been taken over by John Robinson.
