Great Yarmouth Blacksmith Fred Leak

Photographs of Fred working in his Smithy in 1963

By Laura Matthews

Bernard Duffield took these photographs of Fred Leak in 1963 when he was a student at the Great Yarmouth Art College. Fred had a blacksmiths behind Fish Stall House on the Market Place. Maybe you remember him.

Photo:Photograph of Fred Leak working in his Smithy in 1963

Photograph of Fred Leak working in his Smithy in 1963

Courtesy of Bernard Duffield

Photo:Photograph of Fred Leak working in his Smithy in 1963

Photograph of Fred Leak working in his Smithy in 1963

Courtesy of Bernard Duffield

Photo:Photograph of Fred Leak working in his Smithy in 1963

Photograph of Fred Leak working in his Smithy in 1963

Courtesy of Bernard Duffield

Photo:Photograph of tools hanging on the wall of Fred Leak's Smithy in 1963

Photograph of tools hanging on the wall of Fred Leak's Smithy in 1963

Courtesy of Bernard Duffield

Photo:Photograph of cart wheels in Fred Leak's Smithy in 1963

Photograph of cart wheels in Fred Leak's Smithy in 1963

Courtesy of Bernard Duffield

Photo:Photograph of tools hanging on the wall of Fred Leak's Smithy in 1963

Photograph of tools hanging on the wall of Fred Leak's Smithy in 1963

Courtesy of Bernard Duffield

This page was added by Laura Matthews on 10/12/2007.
Comments about this page

That is my Uncle Fred, my mother's brother. Before Uncle Fred, the Smithy was owned by my grandfather, also Frederick Leak.

By John Clarke
On 08/05/2012
I received an email from Lesley Lodge's son to say that this story had been iirenspd by a book of mine, Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005). I'm delighted. Lesley has crafted a gripping and evocative piece, a tantalizing extension of the known historical story. It's an area the personal repercussions of tragedy during the witch-hunt of the mid-17th century that a historian like me often wonders about but has no documentary sources to describe. Lesley's done a really good job. The detail is impressive and the period atmosphere feels just about right.
By Ersin
On 12/02/2015

This is my Dad a very hard working lovely man who made all the Iron work in St Nicholas parish Church Great Yarmouth. Very proud of that as we were married there in 1963 as were my Mum and Dad in 1936 before it was bombed during WW2. RIP. 1910 to 1980.

By Maureen Heal nee Leak
On 12/06/2016
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